The effect of therapeutic exercise and vegan diet on pain and quality of life in young female patients with chronic non-specific neck pain

Bulletin of Faculty of Physical Therapy

Table 1 The demographic data of participants

		Diet	Exercise	Control	TS^a			TS^c
		Diet	Exercise	Control	F	p	r	F	p	r
BMI (kg/m²)	Pre	23.51±3.96 23 (20.2; 25.8)	25.1±5.58 23.4 (20.9; 26.2)	23.79±4.32 21.6 (20.4; 28.3)	1.612	0.212	0.071	1.218	0.306	0.055
BMI (kg/m²)	Post	22.61±3.23 21.8 (20.1; 24.9)	26.59±9.3 23.9 (21; 29.9)	23.65±4.15 21.5 (20.3; 28.3)	1.379	0.144	0.039	1.218	0.306	0.055
TS^b		F=0.177 p=0.676 r=0.004	F=2.7 p=0.108 r=0.06	F=0.004 p=0.948 r=0.001
FAT(%)	Pre	33.49±5.48 32.9 (29.3; 36.9)	28.27±10.48 31.5 (22.3; 35.2)	31.24±6.85 28.9 (25.5; 39.6)	1.656	0.203	0.073	0.302	0.741	0.014
FAT(%)	Post	33.07±4.56 34 (30.5; 35)	29.09±7.27 30.5 (22.4; 34.5)	31.27±6.73 30 (25.5; 39.2)	1.498	0.235	0.067	0.302	0.741	0.014
TS^b		F=0.136 p=0.714 r=0.003	F=0.512 p=0.478 r=0.012	F=0.001 p=0.982 r=0.001

TS test statistics, pre first measurement, post last measurement, F two-way analysis of variance in repeated measures, r effect size. ^aComparison between groups, ^bintra-group comparison, ^ccomparison of pre and post values between groups, summary statistics mean ± standard deviation; given as median (first quartile–third quartile) values