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The Community Balance and Mobility Scale: Detecting Impairments in Military Service Members With Mild Traumatic Brain
Marcy M Pape1, Paula N Kodosky1, Peter Hoover1
1National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 4860 South Palmer Road, Bethesda MD 20889.
Introduction:
The objective of this study was to determine the utility of the Community Balance and Mobility scale (CB&M) among service members presenting with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), to compare the results against well-established balance assessments, and to find a new military-specific CB&M cut score to help differentiate those with and without mTBI.
Materials And Methods:
The setting was a 4-week, intensive-outpatient, interdisciplinary program for active duty service members with mTBI. This was a nonrandomized, cross-sectional design that compared multiple measures between two groups: active duty service members with (n = 45) and without (n = 45) mTBI. The assessments, including the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale, gait speed (comfortable and fast), the Functional Gait Assessment, and the CB&M, were provided to both sample groups.
Results:
The mTBI group performed significantly worse (P ≤ 0.01) across all measures. A higher cut score for the CB&M of 81.5 is suggested. The CB&M demonstrated the best sensitivity (78%) and specificity (91%) ratio, as well as the largest effect size and area under the curve(0.92).
Conclusion:
All objective measures distinguish participants with mTBI from controls, ranging from fair to excellent. The recommended CB&M cut score of 81.5 allows for good variance, standard deviation, and reduced risk of ceiling or floor effects. Further examination of the recommended CB&M cut score is warranted for use in the mTBI civilian populations.
