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Assessment of Sensorimotor Function in Mouse Models of Parkinson's Disease
Published on: June 17, 2013
Reliability of the Wolf Motor Function Test for Parkinson's disease
Vera Lúcia Santos de Britto1, Tatiana Vasconcelos da Silva2, Cynthia do Carmo Gomes de Andrade2
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Instituto de Neurologia Deolindo Couto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Faculdade de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Background:
Assessment of upper limbs in Parkinson's disease (PD) is mandatory to be considered in clinical practice and research. However, few clinical assessments for upper limbs in PD are available. The objective was to evaluate some measurement properties of the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) in individuals with PD.
Methods:
Cross-sectional. Intrarater, interrater and test-retest reliabilities were established by analyzing the results from video assessments of the WMFT in patients with PD (n = 50).
Results And Discussion:
Excellent intrarater reliability for execution time (intraclass correlation coefficient - ICC> 0.75) and substantial intrarater reliability (weighted Kappa - K = 0.61-0.80) for Functional Ability Scale (FAS) for most WMFT tasks were observed. Test-retest was moderate for execution time (ICC ≤ 0.75). Both tasks 7 and 14 had excellent test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.99). The interrater reliability was considerable for performance, for most WMFT tasks, for FAS (K = 0.21-0.40).
Conclusions:
WMFT showed intrarater and interrater reliabilities to assess the UL in patients with PD.
