Therapeutic Role of Additional Mirror Therapy on the Recovery of Upper Extremity Motor Function after Stroke: A Single-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients included in the study.

Characteristic	Randomized		value
	Experimental group ()	Control group ()
Age (years)			0.192^a
Gender (male/female)	18/7	23/4	0.317^b
Lesion type (ischemic/hemorrhagic)	15/10	21/6	0.232^b
Lesion side (left/right)	11/14	12/15	1.000^b
Duration after stroke onset (days)	31.00 (16.50-50.50)	30.00 (21.00-60.00)	0.533^c
Hypertension (yes/no)	17/8	20/7	0.762^b
Diabetes (yes/no)	4/21	8/19	0.329^b
Hyperlipidemia (yes/no)	10/15	6/21	0.232^b
NHISS			0.299^a
HAMD			0.339^c
FMA-UE			0.706^c
ARAT			0.905^c
IADL			0.491^a

Data were presented as (standard deviation) or median (interquartile range). Abbreviations: NHISS: National Institute of Health Stroke Scale; HAMD: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; FMA-UE: Fugl-Meyer Assessment Upper Extremity subscale; ARAT: Action Research Arm Test; IADL: Instrumental Activity of Daily Living. ^a, two independent-sample -test was used to compare two groups in normal distribution variables; ^b, chi-squared test; ^c, Mann–Whitney test was used to compare two groups in nonnormal distribution variables.