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. 2022 Aug 9;22(16):5940. doi: 10.3390/s22165940

Table 2.

Differences among fallers and non-fallers in the instrumented gait and turning measures collected during the daily home monitoring.

Test Result Variable(s) N Mean Std. Error 95% Confidence Interval Range p Value Effect Size
Lower Upper Min Max Cohen’s d
Pitch at Toe Off (°) Non-Fallers 13 30.92 1.00 28.74 33.09 23.94 37.18 0.00 1.42
Fallers 13 23.88 1.66 20.26 27.50 13.73 33.15
Gait Speed (m/s) Non-Fallers 13 1.08 0.03 1.01 1.16 0.90 1.26 0.01 1.05
Fallers 13 0.89 0.06 0.76 1.03 0.40 1.31
Stride Length (m) Non-Fallers 13 1.22 0.03 1.15 1.30 1.00 1.41 0.01 a 0.99
Fallers 13 1.06 0.06 0.93 1.18 0.68 1.40
Double Support (%) Non-Fallers 13 22.70 0.70 21.17 24.23 18.48 26.94 0.01 1.14
Fallers 13 26.14 0.95 24.06 28.22 21.07 31.29
Swing (%) Non-Fallers 13 38.68 0.35 37.91 39.44 36.58 40.76 0.01 1.13
Fallers 13 37.03 0.45 36.05 38.02 34.47 39.46
Pitch at Initial Contact (°) Non-Fallers 13 22.09 1.09 19.73 24.46 26.51 12.46 0.02 a 0.92
Fallers 13 17.30 1.74 13.52 21.08 24.41 5.38
Turn Angle (°) Non-Fallers 12 88.79 1.40 85.71 91.87 79.03 95.58 0.04 0.87
Fallers 13 82.55 2.43 77.25 87.86 63.36 97.65

a The data for stride length and pitch at initial contact were not normally distributed. Therefore, the Mann–Whitney U-test was used to compare between-group differences between fallers and non-fallers.