3. Statistical Analysis
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All analyses were completed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (v26; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Primary outcome measures for this investigation were time to completion for the firefighter-specific tasks and time trial. A 2 × 2 mixed factorial (group × time) ANOVA with repeated measures on time was used to determine any statistically significant differences for time and group main effects and group × time interaction effects. All data are presented as means ± standard deviations. In the event of a significant interaction effect, we conducted a follow-up analysis by calculating delta values (“change scores”) between pre-and post-testing and performed an independent samples 