A Pilot Study of an Exercise-Based Patient Education Program in People with Multiple Sclerosis

Table 6

M ± SD, reported for , , , within exercising group comparison from to using values (, Wilcoxon test, ≤ 0.05); if significant value was reported for to , significance tests were calculated for minus 10% (, paired Wilcoxon test, ≤ 0.05); additionally, to comparisons were calculated using values (, paired Wilcoxon test, ≤ 0.05).

Outcome measure	baseline			(, Wilcoxon) value	(, Wilcoxon) value	(, Wilcoxon) value
SF-36 [score]
Bodily pain	83.9 ± 21.5	94.9 ± 9.1	86.1 ± 19.9	<0.05	ns	ns
Physical role	46.7 ± 46.1	63.3 ± 42.1	40.4 ± 40.2	ns	—	ns
Emotional role	73.3 ± 38.2	91.1 ± 26.6	79.5 ± 37.4	ns	—	ns
Social functioning	76.7 ± 22.6	82.5 ± 19.4	82.7 ± 16.6	ns	—	ns