TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Reliability of single-day walking performance and physical activity measures using inertial sensors in children with cerebral palsy
JO  - Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine
A1  - Gerber, Corinna N.
A1  - Carcreff, Lena
A1  - Paraschiv-Ionescu, Anisoara
A1  - Armand, Stéphane
A1  - Newman, Christopher J.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: There is a lack of objective and reliable tools to measure walking performance in children with cerebral palsy (CP). <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability of inertial measurement units (IMUs) measuring daily-life walking performance and physical activity (PA) in children with CP and healthy controls. <br><br>METHODS: Algorithms were developed to analyse data collected with IMUs during 2 standard school days of the same week and 1 weekend day in 15 children with CP and 14 controls. Additionally, within a clinical trial, 10 children with CP were measured twice, on the same weekday 2 to 4 weeks apart. Relative and absolute reliabilities of PA (% time walking, standing, sitting/lying) and gait parameters (e.g., velocity, cadence) were evaluated by using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and minimal detectable change (MDC<sub>95</sub>), comparing 2 school days of the same week, a school day with a weekend day, and the same weekday 2 to 4 weeks apart. <br><br>RESULTS: For the 15 children with CP (mean [SD] age 13.5 [3.4] years), ICCs were very high (0.70-0.98) when comparing gait parameters for 2 school days. ICCs were lower when comparing 2 school days for 14 control children (mean [SD] age 13.9 [3.0] years) and lowest when comparing a school day with a weekend day for both CP and control children. ICCs for PA were 0.90-0.91 when measuring the same weekday 2 to 4 weeks apart but were very low when comparing 2 school days of the same week or a school day with a weekend day. MDC<sub>95</sub> values were high for both groups and all comparisons but comparable with findings of in-lab studies of similar parameters. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our IMU and algorithm setup appears to be a reliable tool to measure daily life gait parameters in children with CP when repeatedly measured on 2 school days. PA was also reliably assessed but when measuring the same school day some weeks apart. However, the high MDC<sub>95</sub> values question whether the setup can be used as a responsive outcome measure of interventions.<br><br>Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1877-0657
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2019.02.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -