Reliability of gait performance tests in men and women with hemiparesis after stroke.
(2005) In Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 37(2). p.75-82- Abstract
- Objective: To assess the reliability of 6 gait performance tests
in individuals with chronic mild to moderate post-stroke
hemiparesis.
Design: An intra-rater (between occasions) test-retest
reliability study.
Subjects: Fifty men and women (mean age 586.4 years)
6–46 months post-stroke.
Methods: The Timed “Up & Go” test, the Comfortable and
the Fast Gait Speed tests, the Stair Climbing ascend and
descend tests and the 6-Minute Walk test were assessed 7
days apart. Reliability was evaluated with the intraclass
correlation coefficient (ICC2,1), the Bland & Altman
analysis, the standard error of measurement (SEM and
... (More) - Objective: To assess the reliability of 6 gait performance tests
in individuals with chronic mild to moderate post-stroke
hemiparesis.
Design: An intra-rater (between occasions) test-retest
reliability study.
Subjects: Fifty men and women (mean age 586.4 years)
6–46 months post-stroke.
Methods: The Timed “Up & Go” test, the Comfortable and
the Fast Gait Speed tests, the Stair Climbing ascend and
descend tests and the 6-Minute Walk test were assessed 7
days apart. Reliability was evaluated with the intraclass
correlation coefficient (ICC2,1), the Bland & Altman
analysis, the standard error of measurement (SEM and
SEM%) and the smallest real difference (SRD and SRD%).
Results: Test-retest agreements were high (ICC2,1 0.94–0.99)
with no discernible systematic differences between the tests.
The standard error of measurement (SEM%), representing
the smallest change that indicates a real (clinical) improvement
for a group of individuals, was small (9%). The
smallest real difference (SRD%), representing the smallest
change that indicates a real (clinical) improvement for a
single individual, was also small (13–23%).
Conclusion: These commonly used gait performance tests
are highly reliable and can be recommended to evaluate
improvements in various aspects of gait performance in
individuals with chronic mild to moderate hemiparesis after
stroke. (Less)
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- Flansbjer, Ulla-Britt LU ; Drake, Anna Maria LU ; Downham, David ; Patten, Carolynn and Lexell, Jan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- walking, gait, cerebrovascular accident, activities of daily living, outcome assessment, research design, rehabilitation, reproducibility of results
- in
- Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
- volume
- 37
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 75 - 82
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- wos:000227428100002
- pmid:15788341
- scopus:15944388586
- ISSN
- 1651-2081
- DOI
- 10.1080/16501970410017215
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Department of Health Sciences (013220000), Division of Geriatric Medicine (013040040), Rehabilitation medicine (013220008), Physiotherapy (013220009), Division of Occupational Therapy (Closed 2012) (013025000), Division of Physiotherapy (Closed 2012) (013042000)
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in individuals with chronic mild to moderate post-stroke<br/><br>
hemiparesis.<br/><br>
Design: An intra-rater (between occasions) test-retest<br/><br>
reliability study.<br/><br>
Subjects: Fifty men and women (mean age 586.4 years)<br/><br>
6–46 months post-stroke.<br/><br>
Methods: The Timed “Up & Go” test, the Comfortable and<br/><br>
the Fast Gait Speed tests, the Stair Climbing ascend and<br/><br>
descend tests and the 6-Minute Walk test were assessed 7<br/><br>
days apart. Reliability was evaluated with the intraclass<br/><br>
correlation coefficient (ICC2,1), the Bland & Altman<br/><br>
analysis, the standard error of measurement (SEM and<br/><br>
SEM%) and the smallest real difference (SRD and SRD%).<br/><br>
Results: Test-retest agreements were high (ICC2,1 0.94–0.99)<br/><br>
with no discernible systematic differences between the tests.<br/><br>
The standard error of measurement (SEM%), representing<br/><br>
the smallest change that indicates a real (clinical) improvement<br/><br>
for a group of individuals, was small (9%). The<br/><br>
smallest real difference (SRD%), representing the smallest<br/><br>
change that indicates a real (clinical) improvement for a<br/><br>
single individual, was also small (13–23%).<br/><br>
Conclusion: These commonly used gait performance tests<br/><br>
are highly reliable and can be recommended to evaluate<br/><br>
improvements in various aspects of gait performance in<br/><br>
individuals with chronic mild to moderate hemiparesis after<br/><br>
stroke.}},
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