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Table 5 Outcomes at 12 months by adherence to intervention, adjusted means (95%CI) or odds ratio (95%CI)

From: Effect of a multifactorial interdisciplinary intervention on mobility-related disability in frail older people: randomised controlled trial

Outcome

Statistic

Adherence

P

  

< 25%

(n = 42)

25% to 49%

(n = 17)

50% to 74%

(n = 23)

75% to100%

(n = 24)

 

Reintegration to Normal Living Index

Meana

22.0

(20.7 to 23.3)

22.9

(20.8 to 24.9)

23.8

(22.0 to 25.5)

24.8

(23.1 to 26.5)

< 0.01c

Life Space Assessment

Meana

30.5

(26.7 to 34.2)

33.9

(27.8 to 40.1)

36.7

(31.6 to 41.8)

38.7

(33.7 to 43.8)

< 0.01c

Activity Measure for Post Acute Care

Meana

52.1

(50.2 to 54.0)

51.1

(48.0 to 54.2)

55.9

(53.4 to 58.5)

54.4

(51.8 to 56.9)

0.05d

Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living index

Meana

8.48

(7.23 to 9.74)

9.61

(7.58 to 11.6)

10.7

(8.99 to 12.4)

12.7

(11.1 to 14.4)

< 0.001c

Gait speed

Meana

0.48

(0.42 to 0.54)

0.56

(0.47 to 0.65)

0.58

(0.51 to 0.66)

0.62

(0.55 to 0.69)

< 0.01c

Satisfaction with outdoor mobility

Odds ratioa

1.00

2.05

(0.57 to 7.32)

2.62

(0.84 to 8.12)

2.35

(0.75 to 7.36)

0.29e

Goal Attainment Scale (degree of goal attainment)

Odds ratiob

1.00

1.29

(0.45 to 3.68)

3.24

(1.28 to 8.23)

2.06

(0.82 to 5.19)

0.08e

  1. a Adjusted for age, gender, living alone, number of frailty criteria, Mini Mental State Examination score and baseline values; b odds ratio from ordinal logistic regression model adjusting for age, gender, living alone, number of frailty criteria and Mini Mental State Examination score; c F Test: test for trend in means across ordered groups (degrees of freedom = 1), treating groups as ordered (continuous) variable; d F Test: test means between four groups (degrees of freedom = 3), treating groups as a factor; e likelihood test.