GuitarPD: A Randomized Pilot Study on the Impact of Nontraditional Guitar Instruction on Functional Movement and Well-Being in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Participant characteristics.

		Group 1 (n = 13)		Group 2 (n = 13)		-value
		M	SD	M	SD
Age (years)		67.78	7.57	66.67	8.81	0.72
Education (years)		15.12	2.35	15.81	1.18	0.36
MoCA (scores)		27.46	2.18	27.08	2.90	0.66
		N	Percentage (%)	n	Percentage (%)
Sex	Male	9	69.23	8	61.54	1.00
	Female	4	30.77	5	38.46
Hoehn and yahr	2	10	76.92	13	100	0.22
	2.5	1	7.69	0	0
	3	0	0	0	0
	4	2	15.38	0	0
Race	White	13	100	12	92.31	1.00
	African-American	0	0	1	7.69
Handedness	Right	13	100	10	76.92	0.22
	Left	0	0	3	23.08