Preliminary Evidence That Design Fluency Is Related to Dual-Task Treadmill Gait Variability in Healthy Adults
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.2.1. Neuropsychological Measures
2.2.2. Gait Analysis
2.2.3. Dual Task
2.2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Mean | SD | |
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Age (years) | 39.74 | 22.65 |
Education (years) | 14.74 | 2.88 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 24.76 | 4.19 |
Walking Speed (m/s) | 1.10 | 0.21 |
Mean | Median | SD | IQR | ||
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Executive Measures | |||||
Design Fluency | 22.68 | 6.79 | |||
Verbal Fluency | 43.11 | 11.21 | |||
Inhibition | 46.58 | 9.83 | |||
Abstraction | 34 | 8 | |||
Single Task Variables | |||||
Symbol Digit Modalities Test | 84.56 | 15.83 | |||
Stride Length (cm) | 123.1 | 17.67 | |||
Stride Length Variability (cm) | 3.6 | 5.8 | |||
Step Width (cm) | 16.58 | 1.65 | |||
Step Width Variability (cm) | 1.48 | 0.41 | |||
Dual Task Variables | |||||
Symbol Digit Modalities Test | 66.95 *** | 14.60 | |||
Stride Length (cm) | 120.42 ** | 17.27 | |||
Stride Length Variability (cm) | 3.0 | 7.7 | |||
Step Width (cm) | 18.94 *** | 2.25 | |||
Step Width Variability (cm) | 1.50 | 0.35 |
Stride Length Variability | Step Width Variability | |
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Design Fluency | −0.43 * | −0.56 ** |
Verbal Fluency | 0.04 | −0.17 |
Inhibition | 0.22 | 0.04 |
Abstraction | 0.56 | 0.12 |
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Higginson, C.I.; Bifano, M.K.; Seymour, K.M.; Orr, R.L.; DeGoede, K.M.; Higginson, J.S. Preliminary Evidence That Design Fluency Is Related to Dual-Task Treadmill Gait Variability in Healthy Adults. NeuroSci 2024, 5, 328-338. https://doi.org/10.3390/neurosci5030026
Higginson CI, Bifano MK, Seymour KM, Orr RL, DeGoede KM, Higginson JS. Preliminary Evidence That Design Fluency Is Related to Dual-Task Treadmill Gait Variability in Healthy Adults. NeuroSci. 2024; 5(3):328-338. https://doi.org/10.3390/neurosci5030026
Chicago/Turabian StyleHigginson, Christopher I., Morgan K. Bifano, Kelly M. Seymour, Rachel L. Orr, Kurt M. DeGoede, and Jill S. Higginson. 2024. "Preliminary Evidence That Design Fluency Is Related to Dual-Task Treadmill Gait Variability in Healthy Adults" NeuroSci 5, no. 3: 328-338. https://doi.org/10.3390/neurosci5030026