Long-Term Effects of Balance Training on Habitual Physical Activity in Older Adults with Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Mean values of outcome variables for all four measurement periods for control and intervention groups, respectively.

	Baseline		Postintervention		6-month follow-up		12-month follow-up
	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Variables	Intervention n = 43	Control n = 40	Intervention n = 39	Control n = 35	Intervention n = 36	Control n = 31	Intervention n = 34	Control n = 32
TAC^1	280835 (134637)	292475 (154621)	316068 (175388)	289886 (147570)	288230 (126578)	268606 (133582)	270882 (147830)	253270 (126725)
Brisk walking^2	32 (26)	32 (28)	37 (33)	27 (25)	36 (31)	26 (25)	30 (30)	26 (21)
Bouts of brisk walking^3	0.79 (0.92)	0.74 (1.08)	0.81 (1.06)	0.55 (0.80)	0.98 (1.06)	0.60 (0.93)	0.77 (1.09)	0.51 (0.80)
Sedentary^4	77% (9%)	74% (9%)	74% (10%)	74% (7%)	76% (8%)	76% (8)	78% (9%)	75% (9%)
Sedentary bouts^5	14 (3)	12 (3)	13 (4)	12 (3)	14 (3)	14 (3)	15 (4)	13 (3)

¹Total activity counts per day. ²Minutes of activity corresponding to brisk walking per day (>1.0 m/s). ³Number of bouts of ≥10 minutes of activity corresponding to brisk walking per day. ⁴Percentage sedentary of total wear time per day. ⁵Number of bouts of ≥10 minutes of sedentary per day.