Table 3.
Comparative analysis of balance, motor aspects, and activities of daily living of people with Parkinson's disease after the sequential multimodal intervention program in aquatic and land environments.
| Environment | AE | LE | χ2 (df) | AE | LE | ||||||
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| Scales | AS1 | AS2 | AS3 | AS4 | AS2-AS1 | AS3-AS2 | AS3-AS1 | AS4-AS3 | AS4-AS1 | ||
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| n = 15 | Interquartile range (25-75%) | p | AI | Follow-up | LI | FI | |||||
| BBS | 51 | 53 | 50 | 54 | 22.732 (3) | -3.394 | 2.404 | -0.990 | -2.546 | -3.536 | z |
| (44-55) | (49-56) | (45-55) | (51-56) | <0.001 | 0.004 | 0.097 | 1.000 | 0.065 | 0.002 | p | |
| -0.88 | — | — | — | -0.91 | r | ||||||
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| Mini-BEST | 22 | 23 | 22 | 26 | 19.305 (3) | -1.485 | 1.061 | -0.424 | -3.323 | -3.748 | z |
| (18-26) | (20-27) | (15-26) | (22-27) | <0.001 | 0.825 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.005 | 0.001 | p | |
| — | — | — | -0.86 | -0.97 | r | ||||||
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| UPDRS II | 14 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 9.794 (3) | 1.273 | -2.121 | -0.849 | 2.687 | 1.838 | z |
| (9-15) | (8-13) | (8-17) | (7-16) | 0.02 | 1.000 | 0.203 | 1.000 | 0.043 | 0.396 | p | |
| — | — | — | 0.69 | — | r | ||||||
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| UPDRS III | 15 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 24.063 (3) | 2.616 | -2.616 | 0 | 3.889 | 3.889 | z |
| (10-17) | (8-15) | (10-19) | (8-13) | <0.001 | 0.053 | 0.053 | 1.000 | 0.001 | 0.001 | p | |
| 0.68 | -0.68 | — | 1.000 | 1.000 | r | ||||||
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| DGI | 21 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 8.290 (3) | -0.566 | 0.354 | -0.212 | -1.838 | -2.051 | z |
| (19-24) | (21-24) | (19-24) | (24-24) | 0.04 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.396 | 0.242 | p | |
| — | — | — | — | — | r | ||||||
BBS: Berg balance scale; Mini-BEST: mini-balance evaluation system test; UPDRS: unified Parkinson's disease rating scale; II: activities of daily living; III: motor aspects; DGI: dynamic gait index; AS: assessment; AE: aquatic environment; LE: land environment; AI: aquatic intervention; LI: land-based intervention; FI: full intervention. χ2 (df): Friedman ANOVA (degrees of freedom); z: multiple comparisons with Wilcoxon signed-rank and Bonferroni correction, p < 0.05; r: effect size (r = z/√n).