Table 4.
Relationships between social network metrics and improvement in stroke rehabilitation scores.
| Social Network Metric | Stroke rehabilitation metric | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-week Arm motor Fugl-Meyer score improvement | 12-week Walk time improvement | 12-week Geriatric depression score improvement | ||
| Network size | r = 0.06 | r = 0.62 | r = 0.68 | |
| p = 0.85 | p = 0.02 | p= 0.02 | ||
| Network density | r = 0.75 | r = 0.78 | r = 0.27 | |
| p= 0.003 | p= 0.003 | p = 0.39 | ||
| Network constraint | r = 0.03 | r = −0.14 | r = 0.22 | |
| p = 0.92 | p = 0.66 | p = 0.50 | ||
| Effective size | r = −0.57 | r = −0.46 | r = 0.06 | |
| p = 0.04 | p = 0.11 | p = 0.86 | ||
| Maximum degree | r = 0.19 | r = 0.58 | r = −0.42 | |
| p = 0.53 | p = 0.04 | p = 0.18 | ||
| Percentage kin | r = 0.17 | r = 0.05 | r = 0.31 | |
| p = 0.57 | p = 0.87 | p = 0.32 | ||
| Percentage who exercise | r = −0.42 | r = 0.03 | r = −0.33 | |
| p = 0.15 | p = 0.91 | p = 0.30 | ||
| Percentage who smoke | r = 0.14 | r = 0.01 | r = −0.06 | |
| p = 0.64 | p = 0.97 | p = 0.85 | ||
p-values using Spearman rank-order correlation. Bolded values are statistically significant.