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Table 3 Mean CV (%) values ± 1SD for each spatiotemporal stride parameter under each condition

From: The effects of mobile phone use on walking: a dual task study

Parameters

Single task

Dual-task

Walking only

Walking + texting

Walking + talking on a phone

NWS

FWS

NWS

FWS

NWS

FWS

Gait velocity

2.7 ± 0.8

3.1 ± 0.8

5.0 ± 1.8

5.2 ± 4.0

4.1 ± 1.5

3.8 ± 1.5

Cadence

1.7 ± 0.5

1.5 ± 0.4

2.6 ± 1.1a

2.4 ± 1.6a

2.2 ± 0.7b

2.0 ± 0.6b

Stride length

1.9 ± 0.6

2.1 ± 0.9

3.2 ± 1.0a

3.7 ± 3.8a

2.6 ± 0.8b

2.4 ± 0.6b

Double support time

8.0 ± 3.8

8.4 ± 4.4

9.7 ± 9.3a

8.9 ± 6.3a

7.6 ± 3.8

7.7 ± 3.9

  1. Significance demarcation based on pairwise comparisons of the three levels of task
  2. NWS self-selected walking speed, FWS self-selected fast walking speed
  3. aDenotes ‘walking + texting’ condition differs significantly from the walking only condition (P < 0.05)
  4. bDenotes ‘walking + talking on a phone’ condition differs significantly from the walking only condition (P < 0.05)
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BMC Research Notes

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