Table 2.
Patient Demographics, Treatment Characteristics, and Functional Status for Start Time by Sex (n = 147)
| Study Population |
Early Start (n= 116) |
Late Start (n= 31) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Start n = 116 |
Late Start n = 31 |
P-Value | St. Diff | Female n = 56 |
Male n = 60 |
P-Value | St. Diff | Female n = 25 | Male n = 6 | P-Value | St. Diff | |||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||||||||||
| Demographics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Age (years) | 61.3 | 9.7 | 69.0 | 12.1 | .002 | 61.8 | 9.4 | 60.9 | 10 | ns | 0.09 | 69.7 | 12.3 | 60.7 | 8.1 | ns | 0.77 | |
| Treatment characteristics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Time to first visit∗ | 4.2 | 2.0 | 13.8 | 3.4 | <.001 | 4.07 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 1.8 | ns | 0.10 | 13.6 | 4.1 | 14.9 | 3 | ns | 0.33 |
| Total number of visits | 8.9 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 3.4 | .004 | 0.64 | 9.2 | 5.1 | 8.6 | 4.4 | ns | 0.12 | 5.7 | 3.4 | 6.8 | 3.6 | ns | 0.32 |
| Total length of treatment∗ | 6.4 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 2.8 | .03 | 0.43 | 6.5 | 4.1 | 6.3 | 4.7 | ns | 0.05 | 4.13 | 2.6 | 6.2 | 3.3 | ns | 0.76 |
| Initial pain score | 3.7 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 2.7 | ns | 0.28 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.7 | .01 | 0.44 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 5 | 2.8 | ns | 0.29 |
| First visit LEFS score | 27.7 | 14.3 | 30.0 | 17.0 | ns | 0.15 | 25.6 | 13.2 | 29.7 | 15.1 | ns | 0.30 | 28.7 | 17.5 | 35.3 | 14.9 | ns | 0.39 |
St.Diff = standardized difference.
∗
weeks.