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Repeated assessment of key clinical walking measures can induce confounding practice effects

Meyer, Christian; Killeen, Tim; Lörincz, Lilla; Curt, Armin; Bolliger, Marc; Linnebank, Michael; Zörner, Björn; Filli, Linard (2020). Repeated assessment of key clinical walking measures can induce confounding practice effects. Multiple Sclerosis, 26(11):1298-1302.

Abstract

Accurate functional outcome measures are critical for both clinical trials and routine patient assessments. Many functional outcomes improve with test repetition, a phenomenon that can confound the findings of longitudinal assessments. In this viewpoint, we tackle the poorly considered issue of practice effects in prevailing clinical walking tests based on current literature, while also presenting the original data from our own work, in which we investigated practice effects in the timed 25-foot walk (T25FW), timed-up and go (TUG), and 2-minute walk test (2MWT). In these tests, performed on 3 consecutive days in 10 patients with multiple sclerosis and 40 healthy controls, we observed significant practice effects in several established walking outcomes, including a 9.0% improvement in patients' TUG performance ( p = 0.0146). Pre-training in these walking tests prior to baseline measurement may mitigate practice effects, thereby improving the accuracy and value of their repeated use in research and clinical settings.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Balgrist University Hospital, Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Center
Dewey Decimal Classification:610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Neurology
Health Sciences > Neurology (clinical)
Language:English
Date:1 October 2020
Deposited On:19 Jun 2019 12:05
Last Modified:21 Oct 2024 01:39
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:1352-4585
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458519845839
PubMed ID:31081454

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