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. 2022 Dec 17:1–11. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s13760-022-02160-3

Table 1.

Characteristics of the participants at baseline, by group. Mean(SD)

SRTT Control p value
Characteristics (n = 57) (n = 29)
Men/women (number) 30/27 15/14 0.934
Freezers/Non-freezers (number) 21/36 9/20 0.026
Age (years) 66.9 (9.8) 65.1 (9.9) 0.422
Educational level (years) 11.7 (5.7) 11.4 (5.6) 0.795
Body mass (kg) 70.0 (12.5) 65.2 (12.1) 0.110
Height (cm) 1.6 (0.1) 1.7 (0.1) 0.193
Body mass index (kg/m2) 25.9 (4.6) 23.9 (5.3) 0.099
MoCA (score) 24.5 (2.8) 24.9 (3.6) 0.187
Years since diagnosis (years) 7.6 (5.2) 8.0 (5.7) 0.758
Modified Hoehn and Yahr staging scale (a.u) 2.6 (0.7) 2.8 (0.6) 0.359
1 1 0
1.5 1 0
2 20 9
3 31 17
4 4 3
L-Dopa equivalent daily dose (mg/day) 619.7 (341.3) 618.1 (451.5) 0.986
UPDRS-III (score) 31.8 (17.4) 33.6 (15.7) 0.647
Days practicing social distancing (days/week) 6.4 (1.2) 6.7 (0.7) 0.170
Outcomes
PDQ-39 (%) 32.3 (13.8) 33.0 (13.3) 0.182
Walking from UPDRS-III (score) 1.3 (0.8) 1.4 (0.8) 0.997
Posture from UPDRS-III (score) 0.9 (1.1) 1.0 (0.7) 0.621
NFOGQ (score) 15.2 (7.1) 16.5 (7.6) 0.768

SRTT supervised, real-time videoconferencing telerehabilitation, Control nonexercising control group, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a.u. arbitrary units, UPDRS-III Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III, PDQ-39 Parkinson´s Disease Questionnaire, NFOGQ New-freezing of gait questionnaire