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’s characteristics at baseline

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

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

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