Measuring gait and gait-related activities in Parkinson's patients own home environment: a reliability, responsiveness and feasibility study

L I I K Lim; E E H van Wegen; C J T de Goede; D Jones; L Rochester; V Hetherington; A Nieuwboer; A M Willems; G Kwakkel

doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2004.06.003

Measuring gait and gait-related activities in Parkinson's patients own home environment: a reliability, responsiveness and feasibility study

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005 Jan;11(1):19-24. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2004.06.003.

Authors

L I I K Lim¹, E E H van Wegen, C J T de Goede, D Jones, L Rochester, V Hetherington, A Nieuwboer, A M Willems, G Kwakkel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physiotherapy, VU University Medical Center (VUmc), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. i.lim@vumc.nl

PMID: 15619458
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2004.06.003

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess reliability, responsiveness and feasibility of gait and gait related tests in the home of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, a timed walking test, the Timed Get Up and Go test the Berg Balance Scale and the Functional Reach test were applied by three independent observers on 26 PD patients. Moderate to high Intraclass Correlation Coefficients were found, ranging from 0.74 to 0.88 and 0.64 to 0.87 for the intra- and inter-observer reliability, respectively. All test showed Reliable Change Indexes under 11% and the whole test battery was applicable within 30 min.

Publication types

Clinical Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Activities of Daily Living / psychology*
Adult
Aged
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Environment
Europe
Feasibility Studies
Female
Gait / physiology*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Observer Variation
Parkinson Disease / psychology*
Reproducibility of Results