Can two multimodal psychomotor exercise programs improve attention, affordance perception, and balance in community dwellings at risk of falling? A randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Participant鈥檚 characteristics at baseline

听	EG1 Prevalence or Mean鈥壜扁€塖D	EG2 Prevalence or Mean鈥壜扁€塖D	CG Prevalence or Mean鈥壜扁€塖D	P-value
Age (years)	74.3鈥壜扁赌�5.4	74.7鈥壜扁赌�5.5	76.8鈥壜扁赌�5.8	0.407
Sex, female (%)	14 (87.5)	15 (93.8)	13 (68.4)	0.124
Educational level (years)	6.0鈥壜扁赌�2.6	6.1鈥壜扁赌�3.4	7.0鈥壜扁赌�5.3	0.997
Cognitive performance (points)	27.7鈥壜扁赌�1.7	28.2鈥壜扁赌�1.7	28.5鈥壜扁赌�1.6	0.332
Body mass index (kg/m²)	29.1鈥壜扁赌�3.0	28.6鈥壜扁赌�4.3	28.1鈥壜扁赌�4.4	0.648
Physical independence (points)	21.5鈥壜扁赌�2.7	20.8鈥壜扁赌�2.2	21.5鈥壜扁赌�2.8	0.554
Physical activity (MET-min/week)	927.0鈥壜扁赌�557.9	953.4鈥壜扁赌�638.5	740.4鈥壜扁赌�520.9	0.611
Number of falls within the last six months (n)	1.13鈥壜扁赌�0.8	1.19鈥壜扁赌�1.0	1.11鈥壜扁赌�0.3	0.993

SD standard deviation, EG1 experimental group attending the multimodal psychomotor program (n鈥�=鈥�16), EG2 experimental group attending the combined program: multimodal psychomotor program + WBV (n鈥�=鈥�16), GC control group (n鈥�=鈥�19). Significant differences between groups, p鈥�<鈥壧�0.05

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