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Table 5 The patient-selected activities in the Patient-Specific Functional Scale, categorized into the four domains of physical activity and presented for the entire study population

From: Impact of walk advice alone or in combination with supervised or home-based structured exercise on patient-reported physical function and generic and disease-specific health related quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication, a secondary analysis in a randomized clinical trial

 

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Leisure-time physical activities, e.g., golf, tennis, bicycling, dance, visit restaurants, visit grandchildren, shopping. n (%)

8 (4.8)

16 (9.6)

20 (12.0)

Work-related activities, n (%)

5 (3.0)

1 (0.6)

0

Household/domestic/self-care activities, e.g., rise from sitting, pick up things from the floor, gardening, n (%)

17 (10.2)

24 (14.5)

31 (18.7)

Transport-related activities, e.g., walking activities, walking up stairs and hills, n (%)

131 (78.9)

109 (65.7)

73 (44.0)

Missing, n (%)

5 (3.0)

16 (9.6)

42 (25.3)

Sum of patients per activity, n

161a

150

124

  1. Number of patients presented by activity
  2. aFive out of 166 patients did not receive allocated intervention