Promoting Optimal Physical Exercise for Life: An Exercise and Self-Management Program to Encourage Participation in Physical Activity after Discharge from Stroke Rehabilitation—A Feasibility Study
Table 1
Participant characteristics. Values presented are means with standard deviations and ranges in parentheses. The value is for the comparison between groups using Kruskal-Wallis test (continuous or ordinal data) or chi-square test (categorical data).
PROPEL group ()
COMP group ()
value
Age (years)
62.1 (10.0; 42–76)
67.1 (13.4; 46–87)
0.29
Sex (number)
Men
9
6
0.033
Women
2
9
Time after stroke (days)
167.5 (77.3; 66–283)
94.2 (25.3; 47–139)
0.012
More affected side (number)
Left
5
7
0.95
Right
6
8
NIH-SS (score)
2.4 (2.5; 0–7)
2.7 (1.9; 0–8)
0.46
CMSA-leg (score)
5.3 (1.3, 3–7)
4.7 (1.1, 3–7)
0.20
CMSA-foot (score)
5.0 (1.5, 2–7)
4.0 (1.0, 2–6)
0.041
Premorbid sedentary time (hours/day)
4.7 (2.3, 2.0–8.1)
4.3 (2.4, 1.4–7.7)
0.42
Premorbid exercise (hours/day)
0.15 (0.22, 0–0.53)
0.60 (0.83, 0–2.5)
0.16
CMSA: Chedoke-McMaster Stroke Assessment; NIH-SS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.
