Table 2.

The means (±SD) of the Mos 36-item Short Form Health Survey, Stand-up and sit-down chair test, Arm lifting test and Maximal oxygen uptake in two groups

Variables	Intervention Group		Intervention Group Paired t test (P)	Control Group		Control Group Paired t test(P)	Baseline ANOVA analysis (P)	ANCOV Aanalysis(P)
	(n = 26)			(n = 24)
	Baseline	12 weeks		Baseline	12 weeks
SF-36
PF	82.12(10.69)	86.73(7.87)	0.085	78.96(18.88)	85.21(10.78)	0.079	0.466	0.735
RP	32.69(38.58)	57.69(37.93)	O.009*	59.38(42.23)	53.13(41.25)	0.519	0.057	0.142
BP	73.46(13.84)	77.31(13.43)	0,290	73.33(18.10)	79.58(16.28)	0.189	0.978	0.590
GH	65.96(15.85)	73.38(18.16)	0.024*	57.21(19.80)	63.08(18.90)	0.054	0.090	0.300
VT	61.92(11.67)	67.12(5.86)	0.014*	62.71(8.84)	62.08(10.31)	0.700	0.791	0.009*
SF	88.94(17.08)	95.67(17.30)	0.148	85.42(24.91)	93.75(21.49)	0.103	0.560	0.872
RE	61.54(40.76)	74.36(33.08)	0.144	56.94(44.48)	69.44(40.43)	0.131	0.705	0.744
MH	51.08(6.23)	54.62(4.92)	0.014*	51.83(6.62)	49.83(5.53)	0.197	0.679	0.001*
HT	2.42(1.14)	1.65(0.94)	0.007*	2.46(1.28)	2.17(0.82)	0.373	0.918	0.048*
SPSDCT	14.81(2.93)	19.31(4.32)	0.000*	15.17(3.41)	15.67(3.69)	0.180	0.691	0.000*
ALT	16.08(5.01)	20.50(4.14)	0.000*	18.58(4.09)	19.33(4.46)	0.268	0.060	0.017*
VO2max	43.07(18.32)	50.58(13.88)	0.027*	41.35(17.71)	44.98(16.52)	0.056	0.738	0.149

Abbreviations: SF-36 the Mos 36-item Short Form Health Survey, PF Physical Functioning, RP Role-Physical, BP Bodily Pain, GH General Health, VT Vitality, SF Social Functioning, RE Role-Emotional, MH Mental Health, HT Reported Health Transition, VO2max maximal oxygen uptake, SPSDCT Stand-up and sit-down chair test (number of times standing up from the chair within 30 s), ALT Arm lifting test (30 s dumb bell of 5 pounds or 2.3Kg lifting test), ANCOV, Analysis of Covariance, ANOVA Analysis of Variance, * p < 0.05