Timed Walking Tests Correlate With Daily Step Activity In Persons With Stroke

Abstract Mudge S, Stott NS. Timed walking tests correlate with daily step activity in persons with stroke. Objectives To examine the relationship among 4 clinical measures of walking ability and the outputs of the StepWatch Activity Monitor in participants with stroke. Design Correlational study. Setting Clinic and participants' usual environments. Participants Fifty participants more than 6 months after stroke were recruited. All participants were able to walk independently, but with some residual difficulty. Interventions Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI), Rivermead Motor Assessment (RMA), six-minute walk test (6MWT), ten-meter walk test (10MWT), StepWatch outputs (based on daily step counts and stepping rates). Results The correlations between the RMA and all StepWatch outputs were low ( ρ =0.36–0.48; P