Test-retest reliability of the StepWatch Activity Monitor outputs in individuals with chronic stroke
| aut.relation.endpage | 887 | |
| aut.relation.issue | 10-11 | |
| aut.relation.startpage | 871 | |
| aut.relation.volume | 22 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mudge, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stott, NS | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-21T03:14:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-21T03:14:57Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Objective: To examine the test—retest reliability of the StepWatch Activity Monitor outputs over two periods, a week apart, in participants with stroke. Design: Test—retest reliability study over monitoring periods of one, two and three days. Setting: Participant's usual environment. Participants: Forty participants more than six months post stroke. Main measures: StepWatch outputs: total step count, number of steps at high medium and low stepping rates, sustained activity indices, peak activity index. Results: The intraclass correlation coefficients were high for all StepWatch outputs and all monitoring periods but were highest for the three-day monitoring period (0.930—0.989) and lowest for the one-day monitoring period (0.830—0.950). The coefficient of variation ranged from 6.7% to 48.7% over the monitoring periods, with higher variation shown for shorter monitoring periods. The most reliable four outputs had 95% limits of agreement between three-day periods that were less than 40%. These were total step count (±37.8%), highest step rate in 1 minute (±23.0%), highest step rate in 5 minutes (±38.6%) and peak activity index (±29.8%). The highest step rate in 1 minute was the only StepWatch output that had 95% limits of agreement less than 40% for the two-day (±31.2%) and one-day (±36.7%) monitoring periods. Conclusions: Total step count, highest step rate in 1 minute, highest step rate in 5 minutes and peak activity index have good test—retest reliability over a three-day monitoring period, with lower reliability shown by the other StepWatch outputs. In general, monitoring over one or two days is less reliable. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Clinical Rehabilitation, vol.22(10-11), pp.871 - 887 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0269215508092822 | |
| dc.identifier.roid | 11998 | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/5353 | |
| dc.publisher | Sage | |
| dc.rights | Authors retain the right to place his/her pre-publication version of the work on a personal website or institutional repository. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published. It is not the copy of record. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2008. (please see Citation and Publisher’s Version). | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Cerebrovascular accident | |
| dc.subject | Gait | |
| dc.subject | Rehabilitation | |
| dc.subject | Activity | |
| dc.title | Test-retest reliability of the StepWatch Activity Monitor outputs in individuals with chronic stroke | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| pubs.elements-id | 14141 | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT/Health & Environmental Science |