Table 1.
Patients (P.) data at the follow-up: absolute frequency (and percentages) for discrete variables, mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables, median (and first and third quartiles) for ordinal data. The p-values (in bold if statistically significant) refer to the comparison between patients enrolled in technological group (TG) and those enrolled in the conventional therapy group (CG) in the fourth column and between patients who received Riablo versus SonicHand treatments in the sixth column. These p-values were obtained by the tests reported in the last column and selected according to the variable types.
| Demographical and Clinical Data | TG (N = 23) |
CG (N = 25) |
p-Value | Riablo (N = 10) |
SonicHand (N = 13) |
p-Value | Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 51.0 ± 11.8 | 52.5 ± 10.5 | 0.648 | 47.5 ± 9.1 | 54.0 ± 13.3 | 0.221 | t-test |
| Months from stroke | 27.0 ± 13.2 | 21.7 ± 12.2 | 0.156 | 26.6 ± 6.5 | 27.0 ± 16.9 | 0.902 | t-test |
| Male sex | 14 (60.9%) | 17 (68.0%) | 0.606 | 7 (70%) | 7 (53.8%) | 0.431 | χ2-test |
| MBI Pre-Rehab | 66 (41;78) | 65 (19; 75) | 0.793 | 79 (74; 82) | 45 (25; 60) | 0.002 | u-test |
| MBI Post-Rehab | 88 (72;98) | 80 (65; 90) | 0.391 | 98 (95; 100) | 80 (65; 87) | 0.005 | u-test |
| MBI follow-up | 100 (82;100) | 95 (85;100) | 0.450 | 100 (100; 100) | 90 (65; 100) | 0.016 | u-test |
| SF-12 total | 94 (83;106) | 97 (84; 104) | 0.543 | 104 (87; 109) | 92 (75; 109) | 0.343 | u-test |
| SF-12 physical | 47 (39;54) | 43 (36; 49) | 0.190 | 48 (45; 53) | 43 (31; 54) | 0.563 | u-test |
| SF-12 mental | 51 (42;58) | 58 (48; 59) | 0.599 | 55 (47; 59) | 50 (38; 56) | 0.284 | u-test |
| P. with assistive devices | 5 (21.7%) | 8 (32.0%) | 0.424 | 2 (20%) | 3 (23.1%) | 0.859 | χ2-test |
| QUEST 1 (N = 13) | 4.7 (4.4;5.0) | 4.8 (4; 4.8) | 0.602 | 4.7 (4.6; 4.9) | 4.7 (4.6; 4.9) | 0.767 | u-test |
| QUEST 2 (N = 13) | 5 (0.0;5.0) | 2.5 (0; 4.6) | 0.194 | 2.4 (1.2; 3.6) | 5 (5; 5) | 0.053 | u-test |
| IPPA 1 (N = 13) | 20 (19;23.3) | 23 (18.4;25.0) | 0.303 | 19.5 (19.2;19.7) | 20 (15; 21.6) | 0.767 | u-test |
| IPPA 2 (N = 13) | 10 (8;10.5) | 15 (10.5; 20) | 0.107 | 11.5 (11.2;11.7) | 7 (6.8; 8.5) | 0.083 | u-test |
| IPPA Difference (N = 13) | 8.0 (5.0;10) | 7.8 (5; 10.2) | 0.605 | 8 (8; 8) | 10 (6.5;13.3) | 0.554 | u-test |
| P. with fall events | 5 (21.7%) | 4 (16.0%) | 0.611 | 0 (0%) | 5 (38.5%) | 0.026 | χ2-test |
| Return to Work | 11 (47.8%) | 9 (36.0%) | 0.406 | 7 (70%) | 4 (30.8%) | 0.062 | χ2-test |