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 | |||
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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.