Fig. 1

Flowchart of patient inclusion and the number patients included in the responsiveness and minimal important change analyses

*One patient did not perform 5-min walk at the baseline assessment.

**The number of patients concerns the responsiveness analysis for hypotheses 2–5. In the data analysis for responsiveness hypothesis 1, only 57 patients were included due to missing data on the construct-specific global perceived effect scales. Moreover, since one patient had missing baseline data for 5-min walk, the number of patients in the responsiveness analysis for all hypotheses was one less for this task than for the others.

***For 5-min walk, 54 patients were included in the minimal important change analysis since one patient had missing baseline data for that physical capacity task