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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults
Published on: November 7, 2014
Reference equations for harmonizing gait speed results of different test protocols in community-dwelling older adults
Ulrich Lindemann1, Sebastian Krumpoch2, Ellen Freiberger2
1Department of Geriatrics and Clinic for Geriatric Rehabilitation, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Klinik Für Geriatrische Rehabilitation, Auerbachstr. 110, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany. ulrich.lindemann@rbk.de.
Background And Aims:
Different gait speed assessment protocols regarding start and stop of walking make comparison between studies impossible. The aim of this study was providing reference equations to estimate a person´s steady-state gait speed from gait speed measured with a test protocol including static start and/or stop.
Methods:
Gait speed of 150 community-dwelling older adults (mean age 80.5 ± 4.5 years; 61% women) was measured over 4 m with different assessment protocols regarding start and stop of walking on an instrumented walkway. Reference equations to estimate steady-state gait speed from the results of other test protocols were calculated by regression analysis within a fivefold cross-validation.
Results:
Mean absolute errors and the root mean squared errors of all reference equations ranged from 0.063 m/s to 0.074 m/s and 0.082 m/s to 0.096 m/s, respectively.
Conclusions:
The provided reference equations can help harmonizing results between studies in community-dwelling older adults.
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