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Table 5 Attrition rate details

From: Significant improvements in pain after a six-week physiotherapist-led exercise and education intervention, in patients with osteoarthritis awaiting arthroplasty, in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial

 

Week 6

Week 12

Month 12

Reason for absence

Experimental

Control

Experimental

Control

Experimental

Control

Withdrawing from study

1

1

2

2

2

2

Falling ill

1

2

2

1

3

1

Forgetting

 

3

 

4

 

3

Transport

  

1

  

2

Receiving surgery

  

1

2

3

2

Work responsibility

   

2

  

Other: funeral

    

1

 

Total

2

6

6

11

9

10

Percentage of entire sample

10 %

23 %

25 %

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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