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Time between events was no less than 10 minutes and no more than 20 minutes. Injuries. Injuries were obtained from the Anny Medical Surveillance Activity that warehouses data from the Standard Ambulatory Data Record (SADR), which contains all outpatient medical visits made by Army personnel. Each time a trainee saw a medical care provider at the Troop Medi24). For all categorical variables, simple contrasts with a baseline variab]e (dcfined with a risk ratio of 1.00) were used. RESUI..TS 1'he physical characteristics of the CG and EG are sho\vn in Table 4. ,!'he groups were very similar on all physical characteristics. At the start of BCT, the proportion of women in the CG was 42.4%, while that of the EG \vas 41.4rk (p = 0.66). At the conclusion of training, the proportion of women in the CG was 39.9%, \vhile that of the EG was 37.8"/c, (p = 0.40). Physical Fitness Outcomes Table 5 shows the Initial Fitness Assessment scores of the 2 groups. Men and women in the EG performed an average of 2 more push-ups in a minute than those in the CG, and this difference was statistically significant. There were no group differences on sit-ups or the 1-mile run. Table 6 shows the APFT scores of the CG and EG at weeks 5 and 7. Since there were initial group differences on push-ups (Table 4), ANCOV A was used for analysis of this test event with adjustment for push-up scores on the Initial Fitness Assessment. The ANCOVA showed no significant group-by-week interaction (p = 0.13 for men, p = 0.58 for \vomen). There was an improvement from \veek 5 to week 7 (p < 0.01 for both men and women). The EG demonstrated higher push-up performance than the CG (p < 0.01 for men and p = 0.02 for women). Overall, the results indicate that for both men and women, push-up performance of the EG was higher than that of the CG at
'.., ~" :;f~_t ETAL. .p value compares CG and EG using an independent-samples i-test. t BM! = body mass index. TABLE 5. Comparison of Initial Fitness Assessment scores of the control group (CG) and the evaluation group (EG). Men Women Push-tipS CG (/I) EG Sit-ups CG (/II EG I-mi. run CG (min) EG 28 30 31 31 8.4 8.4 1.1 1.1 7 7 1.2 1.4
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