Abstract
Uswatte G, Giuliani C, Winstein C, Zeringue A, Hobbs L, Wolf SL. Validity of accelerometry
for monitoring real-world arm activity in patients with subacute stroke: evidence
from the Extremity Constraint-Induced Therapy Evaluation trial.
Objective
To examine the psychometric properties of an objective method for assessing real-world
arm activity in a large sample with subacute stroke.
Design
Validation study.
Setting
Community.
Participants
Persons 3 to 9 months poststroke (N=169) with mild to moderate motor impairment of
their hemiparetic arm enrolled in a multisite, randomized clinical trial of constraint-induced
movement therapy.
Interventions
Not applicable.
Main Outcome Measures
Participants wore an accelerometer on each arm outside the laboratory for 3 days before
and after treatment or an equivalent no-treatment period. They also completed the
Actual Amount of Use Test (AAUT), which is an observational measure of spontaneous
more-impaired arm use, and the Motor Activity Log (MAL), which is an interview assessing
more-impaired arm use in daily life.
Results
Low-pass–filtered accelerometer recordings were reliable (r range, >.8) and stable (P range, >.48). Their validity was also supported. Correlations calculated across all
participants at baseline between the ratio of more-impaired to less-impaired arm accelerometer
recordings and AAUT and MAL scores were .60 and .52, respectively.
Conclusions
Accelerometry provides an objective, real-world index of more-impaired arm activity
with good psychometric properties.
Key Words
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Footnotes
Supported by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (grant no. HD 37606), and the American Heart Association Southeast Affiliate (grant no. 0365163B).
No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.
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