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. 2020 Nov 4;20:444. doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01724-3

Table 2.

Scores obtained by sections and total score of BESTest and Mini-BESTest. Values obtained by each raters

Rater 1 Post-hoc Scheffé Rater 2 Post-hoc Scheffé F [2, 25] & (p) values
Total cohort Men Women Total cohort Men Women
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
I. Biomechanical Constraints 9.97 2.47 11.00 2.45 9.06 2.17 (0.03)* 10.20 2.20 11.21 2.04 9.31 1.99 (0.01)* 3.22 (0.06)
II. Stability limits/Verticality 18.57 1.85 19.14 1.35 18.06 2.11 NS 18.43 1.94 18.71 1.81 18.19 2.10 NS 1.82 (0.18)
III. Anticipatory Postural Adjustments 15.73 1.18 16.07 1.73 15.44 1.90 NS 15.70 1.72 16.07 1.68 15.38 1.75 NS 0.68 (0.52)
IV. Postural Responses 14.93 1.82 15.79 1.31 14.19 1.90 (0.01)* 14.03 1.92 15.0 1.75 13.19 1.68 (0.01)* 4.48 (0.02)*
V. Sensory Orientation 13.63 1.35 13.71 1.64 13.56 1.10 NS 13.63 1.35 13.64 1.65 13.63 1.10 NS 0.24 (0.78)
VI. Stability in Gait 18.07 1.82 18.71 1.77 17.50 1.71 (0.02)* 18.47 1.78 19.29 1.27 17.75 1.88 (0.07) 3.47 (0.05)*
BESTest total score 0–108 90.90 6.80 94.43 6.03 87.81 6.01 90.47 6.21 93.93 5.91 87.44 4.83
BESTest (0–108)/108*100 84.17 6.30 84.59 6.49 83.80 6.32 (0.74) 83.77 5.75 86.97 5.48 80.96 4.47 (0.01)* 5.28 (0.01)*
I. Anticipatory postural adjustments 6.57 1.16 6.78 1.19 6.37 1.15 NS 6.53 1.22 6.79 1.25 6.31 1.19 NS 0.54 (0.59)
II. Postural responses 7.03 0.96 7.28 0.99 6.81 0.91 NS 6.50 0.82 6.71 0.82 6.31 0.79 NS 1.08 (0.35)
III. Sensory orientation 5.03 0.96 5.21 1.05 4.87 0.88 NS 5.03 1.03 5.07 1.14 5.00 0.97 NS 0.72 (0.50)
IV. Stability in gait 8.13 1.01 8.57 0.94 7.75 0.93 NS 8.20 1.41 8.57 1.28 7.87 1.09 NS 2.86 (0.07)
Mini-BESTest 21.1 1.6 21.93 1.38 20.37 1.45 (0.01)* 20.8 2.0 21.36 2.50 20.31 1.45 (0.17) 4.5 (0.02)*

NS not significant. * p < 0.05