Interrater and intrarater reliability of the Semmes Weinstein aesthesiometer to assess touch pressure threshold in burn scars
| Autor: | Peter Moortgat, Guy Hubens, C. Lafaire, L. De Cuyper, Koen Maertens, U. Van Daele, Steven Truijen, Jill Meirte |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Clinical and Lifespan Psychology, PE Academic Unit, Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Research, Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine objective measurement Hypesthesia Cicatrix Young Adult Reliability study Healthy control Pressure medicine burn Humans Reliability (statistics) Burn scar Observer Variation Orthodontics business.industry Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Intra-rater reliability Middle Aged Reliability Touch pressure threshold Surgery Inter-rater reliability Case-Control Studies Sensory Thresholds Tactile sensation Emergency Medicine Female Human medicine Burns business Tactile sense Pressure threshold |
| Zdroj: | Burns |
| ISSN: | 0305-4179 |
| Popis: | a b s t r a c t Burn scars are frequently accompanied with sensory deficits often remaining present months or even years after injury. Clinimetric properties of assessment tools remain understudied within burn literature. Tactile sense of touch can be examined with the touch pressure threshold (TPT) method using the Semmes Weinstein monofilament test (SWMT). There is in recent research no consensus on the exact measurement procedure when using the SWMT. The aim of this paper was to determine the interrater and intrarater reliability of TPT within burn scars and healthy controls using the ‘ascending descending’ measurement procedure. We used the newly developed guidelines for reporting reliability and agreement studies (GRRAS) as a basis to report this reliability study. In total 36 individuals were tested; a healthy control group and a scar group. The interrater reliability was excellent in the scar group (ICC = 0.908/SEM = 0.21) and fair to good in the control group (ICC = 0.731/SEM = 0.12). In the scar group intrarater ICC value was excellent (ICC = 0.822/SEM = 0.33). Within the control group also an excellent intrarater reliability (ICC = 0.807/SEM = 0.27) was found. In conclusion this study shows that the SWMT with the ‘ascending descending’ measurement procedure is a feasible and reliable objective measure to evaluate TPT in (older) upper extremities burn scars as well as in healthy skin. |
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