Bulletin of Faculty of Physical Therapy

Table 2 Association of less-affected grip strength with self-care activities and clinical variables

From: Does grip strength of the less-affected side of ischemic stroke survivors influences performance of self-care activities?

Less-affected grip strength	Correlation (r)	P value
Age	− 0.03	0.827
Body mass	− 0.13	0.265
Total self-care score	0.55	0.001*
Eating	0.35	0.002*
Grooming	0.53	0.001*
Bathing	0.48	0.001*
Dress upper body	0.58	0.001*
Dress lower body	0.54	0.001*
Toileting	0.33	0.004*
Time since stroke	0.17	0.152
Trunk control	0.52	0.001*

^*indicates significant correlation at p < 0.001

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