Table 1.

Clinical detail of patients in the experiment and control group

Variables	Experiment group	Control group	p-value
n	40	40	–
Female/male	18/22	21/19	0.51b
Age (years)	60.86(8.63)	60.52(8.68)	0.86a
Education (years)	6.92(3.05)	7.20(2.96)	0.68a
Body mass index (kg/m2)	23.02(3.57)	23.16(3.27)	0.86a
Smoking (yes/no)	15/25	11/29	0.35b
Duration of stroke (months)	22.59(7.3)	21.98(7.94)	0.72a
Duration of depression (months)	11.31(4.24)	11.03(4.77)	0.78a

Note: ^aTwo-tailed Student's t-test; ^bChi-square test.