Step Activity Monitor: Accuracy and test-retest reliability in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-362

  Bowden, Mark G ^a,b   Behrman, Andrea L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

10 meter walk test; 6 minute walk test; Accuracy; Ambulation; Incomplete spinal cord injury; Outcomes; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Step activity monitor; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEP ACTIVITY MONITOR (SAM);

ACCELEROMETERS; BIOACTIVITY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PATIENT MONITORING;

NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING ERROR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEP ACTIVITY MONITOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34447547900     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2006.03.0033     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) Group. Development of the WHOQOL: Rationale and current status. Int J Ment Health. 1994;23:24-56.
2. Behrman AL, Harkema SJ. Locomotor training after human spinal cord injury: A series of case studies. Phys Ther. 2000;80(7):688-700.
3. Barbeau H, Ladouceur M, Mirbagheri MM, Kearney RE. The effect of locomotor training combined with functional electrical stimulation in chronic spinal cord injured subjects: Walking and reflex studies. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2002;40(1-3):274-91.
4. Field-Fote E. Spinal cord stimulation facilitates functional walking in a chronic, incomplete spinal cord injured subject. Spinal Cord. 2002;40(8):428.
5. Edgerton VR, Tillakaratne NJ, Bigbee AJ, De Leon RD, Roy RR. Plasticity of the spinal neural circuitry after injury. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2004;27:145-67.
6. Van Hedel HJ, Wirz M, Dietz V. Assessing walking ability in subjects with spinal cord injury: Validity and reliability of 3 walking tests. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005; 86(2):190-96.
7. Guyatt GH, Sullivan MJ, Thompson PJ, Fallen EL, Pugsley SO, Taylor DW, Berman LB. The 6-minute walk: A new measure of exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure. Can Med Assoc J. 1985;132(8):919-23.
8. Stineman MG, Shea JA, Jette A, Tassoni CJ, Ottenbacher KJ, Fiedler R, Granger CV. The Functional Independence Measure: Tests of scaling assumptions, structure, and reliability across 20 diverse impairment categories. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1996;77(11):1101-8.
9. Dittuno PL, Dittuno JF Jr. Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI II): Scale revision. Spinal Cord. 2001;39(12): 654-56.
10. Ditunno JF Jr, Ditunno PL, Graziani V, Scivoletto G, Bernardi M, Castellano V, Marchetti M, Barbeau H, Frankel HL, D'Andrea Greve JM, Ko HY, Marshall R, Nance P. Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI): An international multicenter validity and reliability study. Spinal Cord. 2000;38(4):234-43.
11. Sager MA, Dunham NC, Schwantes A, Mecum L, Halverson K, Harlowe D. Measurement of activities of daily living in hospitalized elderly: A comparison of self-report and performance-based methods. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1992;40(5): 457-62.
12. Elam JT, Graney MJ, Beaver T, El Derwi D, Applegate WB, Miller ST. Comparison of subjective ratings of function with observed functional ability of frail older persons. Am J Public Health. 1991;81(9):1127-30.
13. Reuben DB, Valle LA, Hays RD, Siu AL. Measuring physical function in community-dwelling older persons: A comparison of self-administered, interviewer-administered, and performance-based measures. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1995; 43(1):17-23.
14. Silva M, Shepherd EF, Jackson WO, Dorey FJ, Schmalzried TP. Average patient walking activity approaches 2 million cycles per year: Pedometers under-record walking activity. J Arthroplasty. 2002;17(6):693-97.
15. Macko RF, Haeuber E, Shaughnessy M, Coleman KL, Boone DA, Smith GV, Silver KH. Microprocessor-based ambulatory activity monitoring in stroke patients. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002;34(3):394-99.
16. Coleman KL, Smith DG, Boone DA, Joseph AW, Del Aguilia MA. Step Activity Monitor: Long-term continuous recording of ambulatory function. J Rehabil Res Dev. 1999;36(1):8-18.
17. Barbeau H, Fung J, Leroux A, Ladouceur M. A review of the adaptability and recovery of locomotion after spinal cord injury. Prog Brain Res. 2002;137:9-25.
18. Maynard FM Jr, Bracken MB, Creasey G, Ditunno JF Jr, Donovan WH, Ducker TB, Garber SL, Marino RJ, Stover SL, Tator CH, Waters RL, Wilberger JE, Young W. International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury. American Spinal Injury Association. Spinal Cord. 1997;35(5):266-74.
19. Shepherd EF, Toloza E, McClung CD, Schmalzried TP. Step Activity Monitor: Increased accuracy in quantifying ambulatory activity. J Orthop Res. 1999;17(5):703-8.
20. Resnick B, Nahm ES, Orwig D, Zimmerman SS, Magaziner J. Measurement of activity in older adults: Reliability and validity of the Step Activity Monitor. J Nurs Meas. 2001;9(3):275-90.
21. Shaughnessy M, Michael KM, Sorkin JD, Macko RF. Steps after stroke: Capturing ambulatory recovery. Stroke. 2005;36(6):1305-7.
22. Enright PL, Sherrill DL. Reference equations for the six-minute walk in healthy adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1998;158(5 Pt 1):1384-87.
23. Pohl PS, Duncan PW, Perera S, Liu W, Lai SM, Studenski S, Long J. Influence of stroke-related impairments on performance in 6-minute walk test. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2002; 39(4):439-44.
24. Creel GL, Light KE, Thigpen MT. Concurrent and construct validity of scores on the Timed Movement Battery. Phys Ther. 2001;81(2):789-98.
25. Stratford PW. Getting more from the literature: Estimating the standard error of measurement from reliability studies. Physiother Can. 2004;56(1):27-30.
26. Portney LG, Watkins MP. Foundations of clinical research: Applications to practice. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall; 2000.
27. Behrman AK, Lawless-Dixon AR, Davis SB, Bowden MG, Nair P, Phadke C, Hannold EM, Plummer P, Harkema SJ. Locomotor training progression and outcomes after incomplete spinal cord injury. Phys Ther. 2005;85(12):1356-71.
28. World Health Organization (WHO). International classification of functioning, disability, and health. Geneva (Switzerland): WHO; 2001. p. 1-302.