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Table 7 Pain NRS by treatment arm (for n = 55 participants who received all SMS-text-messages)

From: Self-management advice, exercise and foot orthoses for plantar heel pain: the TREADON pilot and feasibility randomised trial

Time All participants SMA SMA-exercises SMA-orthoses SMA-combined
Response (%) Mean (SD) Cumulative number significantly better n (%) Mean (SD) Cumulative number significantly better n (%) Mean (SD) Cumulative number significantly better n (%) Mean (SD) Cumulative number significantly better n (%) Mean (SD) Cumulative number significantly better n (%)
BL 55/55(100) 5.6 (1.9) NA 5.8 (2.1) NA 4.7 (1.5) NA 5.8 (2.0) NA 6.1 (1.6) NA
W1 40/55 (73) 5.2 (2.3) NA 5.0 (3.2) NA 4.3 (2.1) NA 4.8 (2.1) NA 6.3 (1.9) NA
W2 35/55 (64) 5.1 (2.1) 0 (0) 5.8 (2.7) 0 (0) 4.2 (2.2) 0 (0) 4.9 (1.6) 0 (0) 5.6 (2.1) 0 (0)
W3 34/55 (62) 4.4 (2.4) 2 (4) 4.2 (2.4) 0 (0) 3.8 (2.1) 1 (7) 3.1 (2.1) 1 (8) 6.2 (2.2) 0 (0)
W4 40/55 (73) 4.4 (1.9) 3 (6) 5.0 (1.6) 0 (0) 3.8 (2.1) 2 (13) 3.8 (2.0) 1 (8) 5.1 (1.8) 0 (0)
W5 38/55 (69) 4.4 (2.3) 3 (6) 4.5 (2.4) 0 (0) 4.3 (2.5) 2 (13) 3.6 (2.2) 1 (8) 5.2 (2.3) 0 (0)
W6 40/55 (73) 3.7 (2.1) 4 (8) 4.3 (2.7) 0 (0) 3.3 (2.0) 2 (13) 3.5 (2.4) 2 (15) 3.9 (1.7) 0 (0)
W7 37/55 (67) 3.8 (2.4) 6 (12) 4.9 (2.9) 1 (10) 3.5 (1.9) 2 (13) 3.3 (2.8) 3 (23) 3.7 (2.2) 0 (0)
W8 38/55 (69) 3.7 (2.0) 6 (12) 4.3 (2.3) 1 (10) 3.3 (2.0) 2 (13) 3.1 (1.9) 3 (23) 4.1 (2.0) 0 (0)
W9 42/55 (76) 3.7 (2.2) 6 (12) 4.4 (2.0) 1 (10) 3.4 (2.4) 2 (13) 3.3 (1.7) 3 (23) 4.0 (2.4) 0 (0)
W10 40/55 (73) 3.2 (2.4) 7 (14) 4.2 (2.5) 1 (10) 2.5 (1.9) 2 (13) 2.1 (1.6) 3 (23) 3.9 (2.9) 1 (6)
W11 39/55 (71) 3.4 (2.3) 8 (16) 4.3 (1.4) 1 (10) 2.3 (1.8) 2 (13) 2.7 (1.5) 3 (23) 4.5 (3.1) 2 (12)
W12 32/55 (58) 2.9 (2.1) 9 (18) 3.1 (1.9) 1 (10) 2.4 (1.4) 3 (20) 2.5 (1.9) 3 (23) 3.8 (3.1) 2 (12)
FU 36/55 (65) 3.4 (2.5) NA 5.2 (2.5) NA 2.7 (1.5) NA 3.0 (2.1) NA 3.0 (3.2) NA
  1. BL baseline, W week, FU follow up questionnaire, SD standard deviation, NA not applicable. As a result of automated SMS sending errors and host network availability errors, some participants were not sent all messages as described in the protocol. Results were based on 55 participants received all SMS/phone during follow-up (SMA, n = 10; SMA-exercises, n = 15; SMA-orthoses, n = 13; SMA-combined, n = 17). ‘Significantly better’ is based on cumulative time taken to consecutive weekly NRS response scores of 0 and/or 1
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