Improvement of Balance, Motor Aspects, and Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson’s Disease after a Sequential Multimodal Aquatic- and Land-Based Intervention Program

Table 3

Comparative analysis of balance, motor aspects, and activities of daily living of people with Parkinson’s disease after the sequential multimodal intervention program in aquatic and land environments.

Environment	AE		LE		(df)	AE		LE
Scales	AS1	AS2	AS3	AS4		AS2-AS1	AS3-AS2	AS3-AS1	AS4-AS3	AS4-AS1
	Median
	Interquartile range (25-75%)					AI	Follow-up		LI	FI
BBS	51	53	50	54	22.732 (3)	-3.394	2.404	-0.990	-2.546	-3.536
	(44-55)	(49-56)	(45-55)	(51-56)	<0.001	0.004	0.097	1.000	0.065	0.002
						-0.88	—	—	—	-0.91
Mini-BEST	22	23	22	26	19.305 (3)	-1.485	1.061	-0.424	-3.323	-3.748
	(18-26)	(20-27)	(15-26)	(22-27)	<0.001	0.825	1.000	1.000	0.005	0.001
						—	—	—	-0.86	-0.97
UPDRS II	14	11	15	10	9.794 (3)	1.273	-2.121	-0.849	2.687	1.838
	(9-15)	(8-13)	(8-17)	(7-16)	0.02	1.000	0.203	1.000	0.043	0.396
						—	—	—	0.69	—
UPDRS III	15	12	15	11	24.063 (3)	2.616	-2.616	0	3.889	3.889
	(10-17)	(8-15)	(10-19)	(8-13)	<0.001	0.053	0.053	1.000	0.001	0.001
						0.68	-0.68	—	1.000	1.000
DGI	21	23	23	24	8.290 (3)	-0.566	0.354	-0.212	-1.838	-2.051
	(19-24)	(21-24)	(19-24)	(24-24)	0.04	1.000	1.000	1.000	0.396	0.242
						—	—	—	—	—

BBS: Berg balance scale; Mini-BEST: mini-balance evaluation system test; UPDRS: unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale; II: activities of daily living; III: motor aspects; DGI: dynamic gait index; AS: assessment; AE: aquatic environment; LE: land environment; AI: aquatic intervention; LI: land-based intervention; FI: full intervention. (df): Friedman ANOVA (degrees of freedom); : multiple comparisons with Wilcoxon signed-rank and Bonferroni correction, ; : effect size ().