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Published in final edited form as: Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2014 Jul 18;11(3):223–227. doi: 10.3109/17483107.2014.938365

Table 4.

GDA (tetraplegia and paraplegia).

Ratings	Tetraplegia			Paraplegia
Ratings	Mean (SD) sling (N=18)	Mean (SD) rigid (N=15)	p Value (two-tailed)	Mean (SD) sling (N=46)	Mean (SD) rigid (N=18)	p Value (two-tailed)
Discomfort subscale	27.8 (10.0)	30.5 (9.8)	0.239	26.8 (12.3)	27.7 (10.8)	0.510
Comfort subscale	13.9 (5.0)	17.3 (5.5)	0.045^*	16.6 (7.6)	17.0 (6.7)	0.662
Total	41.7 (13.3)	47.9 (14.6)	0.781	43.3 (17.2)	44.7 (–16.4)	0.239

Higher values indicate more discomfort.

^*

Significant effect (p ≤ 0.005).