Reliability of 4-m and 6-m walking speed tests in elderly people with cognitive impairment
| Autor: | Carmen Luz Muñoz-Mendoza, Ana Maseda-Rodríguez, Rosalía López-Sánchez, José Carlos Millán-Calenti, Julio Cabrero-García, M. José Cabañero-Martínez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Aging medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Intraclass correlation Walking Elderly people Walking speed test Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine Humans Cognitive impairment Geriatric Assessment Reliability (statistics) Aged Aged 80 and over Observer Variation Reproducibility of Results Reliability Test (assessment) Preferred walking speed Inter-rater reliability Socioeconomic Factors Exercise Test Physical therapy Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Cognition Disorders Psychology Nursing homes Gerontology |
| Zdroj: | RUC. Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña instname |
| ISSN: | 0167-4943 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.archger.2010.06.020 |
| Popis: | [Abstract] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the interrater and test–retest reliability of 4-m and 6-m walking speed tests in elderly people with cognitive impairment. 50 subjects aged 65 and over with cognitive impairment were selected from an adult day-care centre and a nursing home. To examine interrater reliability, 21 people were evaluated independently by two researchers who administered the 4-m and 6-m walking tests in each evaluation. For test–retest reliability, two observers administered the tests to the same 29 subjects, with a time interval of one week. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were calculated to examine interrater and test–retest reliability. The ICCs for interrater reliability reached values of 0.96 and 0.88 for the 4-m and 6-m walking tests, respectively. In the test–retest study, the time interval was 7.4 1.17 days. The ICCs were 0.91 for the 4-m test and 0.86 for the 6-m test. The results support the use of walking tests in elderly people with cognitive impairment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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