Effectiveness of a Treadmill Training Programme in Improving the Postural Balance on Institutionalized Older Adults

Table 1

Baseline demographic data of the participants and group comparisons (mean and SD).

Variables	Intervention group ()	Control group ()
Sex
Female	10 (43.5%)	7 (50%)
Male	13 (56.5%)	7 (50%)
Age (years)
Females	77.8 ± 6.59	82.57 ± 10.50	0.26
Males	74.15 ± 8.56	74.00 ± 8.06	0.96
Weight (kg)	71.63 ± 15.20	66.98 ± 13.05	0.35
Height (m)	1.62 ± 0.11	1.60 ± 0.11	0.57
Number of medications	5.65 ± 3.69	7.07 ± 4.68	0.31
Duration of institutionalization (months)	32.74 ± 35.18	35.57 ± 28.94	0.56
MoCa score	26.61 ± 1.09	26.71 ± 1.43	0.93

SD: standard deviation; MoCa: montreal cognitive assessment.