Physical activity outside of structured therapy during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Table 4 Individuals with tetraplegia: Self-reported minutes of physical activity at admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation

	Admission	Discharge	Z value	p	effect size
Minutes of all physical activity intensities
Total Day (including PT/OT)	641, 558–690	679, 591–755	~	~	~
Outside PT/OT only	533, 462–592	556, 488–657	~	~	~
Leisure time sedentary activity	264, 182–324	235, 158–311	~	~	~
Activities of daily living	193, 157–241	215, 151–266	~	~	~
Appts, educational classes, etc.	30, 7–46	28, 0–62	~	~	~
Leisure time physical activity	0, 0–13	11, 0–30	~	~	~
Physically active group classes	0, 0–24	0, 0–31	~	~	~
Minutes of lower intensity physical activity
Total Day (including PT/OT)	525, 442–582	558, 460–661	~	~	~
Outside PT/OT only	489, 426–563	497, 411–620	−1.01	0.31	−0.11
Leisure time sedentary activity	264, 182–324	235, 158–311	−0.46	0.65	−0.05
Activities of daily living	170, 139–211	197, 138–247	−1.24	0.21	−0.14
Appts, educational classes, etc.	30, 7–46	28, 0–62	−0.46	0.64	−0.05
Leisure time physical activity	0, 0–8	0, 0–6	−0.61	0.54	−0.07
Physically active group classes	0, 0–0	0, 0–23	−1.94	0.053	−0.21
Minutes of higher intensity physical activity
Total Day (including PT/OT)	103, 66–138	96, 48–171	~	~	~
Outside PT/OT only	22, 0–71	26, 0–67	−0.92	0.36	−0.10
Leisure time sedentary activity	0	0	~	~	~
Activities of daily living	9, 0–32	10, 0–33	−0.11	0.91	−0.01
Appts, educational classes, etc.	0	0	~	~	~
Leisure time physical activity	0, 0–0	0, 0–21	−2.15	0.031	−0.24
Physically active group classes	0, 0–11	0, 0–0	−0.43	0.67	−0.05

All values are median,Q1–Q3; p ≤ 0.012 (Benjamini-Hochberg corrected significance level); Z Z-value, PT physical therapy, OT occupational therapy, Appts appointments

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