Field assessment of balance in 10 to 14 year old children, reproducibility and validity of the Nintendo Wii board.
Background: Because body proportions in childhood are different to those in adulthood, children have a relatively higher centre of mass location. This biomechanical difference and the fact that children's movements have not yet fully matured result in different sway performances in children and adul...
| Publicado en: | BMC Pediatrics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 144 - 145 |
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BioMed Central
2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103828941&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 103828941 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14712431 1CIE jtl: BMC Pediatrics issn: 14712431 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2014 vid: 14 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 103828941 103828941 NLM24913461 2012618618 10.1186/1471-2431-14-144 NLM24913461 PMC4057805 103828941 ppf: 144 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: Field assessment of balance in 10 to 14 year old children, reproducibility and validity of the Nintendo Wii board. aug: au: Larsen, Lisbeth Runge Jørgensen, Martin Grønbech Junge, Tina Juul-Kristensen, Birgit Wedderkopp, Niels affil: Institute of Regional Health Services Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsloewparken 193, Odense C 5000, Denmark. lrunge@health.sdu.dk. sug: subj: Balance, Postural Video Games Adolescence Age Factors Child Feedback Female Human Male Random Assignment Reproducibility of Results Software Adolescent: 13-18 years Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: Background: Because body proportions in childhood are different to those in adulthood, children have a relatively higher centre of mass location. This biomechanical difference and the fact that children's movements have not yet fully matured result in different sway performances in children and adults. When assessing static balance, it is essential to use objective, sensitive tools, and these types of measurement have previously been performed in laboratory settings. However, the emergence of technologies like the Nintendo Wii Board (NWB) might allow balance assessment in field settings. As the NWB has only been validated and tested for reproducibility in adults, the purpose of this study was to examine reproducibility and validity of the NWB in a field setting, in a population of children.Methods: Fifty-four 10-14 year-olds from the CHAMPS-Study DK performed four different balance tests: bilateral stance with eyes open (1), unilateral stance on dominant (2) and non-dominant leg (3) with eyes open, and bilateral stance with eyes closed (4). Three rounds of the four tests were completed with the NWB and with a force platform (AMTI). To assess reproducibility, an intra-day test-retest design was applied with a two-hour break between sessions.Results: Bland-Altman plots supplemented by Minimum Detectable Change (MDC) and concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) demonstrated satisfactory reproducibility for the NWB and the AMTI (MDC: 26.3-28.2%, CCC: 0.76-0.86) using Centre Of Pressure path Length as measurement parameter. Bland-Altman plots demonstrated satisfactory concurrent validity between the NWB and the AMTI, supplemented by satisfactory CCC in all tests (CCC: 0.74-0.87). The ranges of the limits of agreement in the validity study were comparable to the limits of agreement of the reproducibility study.Conclusion: Both NWB and AMTI have satisfactory reproducibility for testing static balance in a population of children. Concurrent validity of NWB compared with AMTI was satisfactory. Furthermore, the results from the concurrent validity study were comparable to the reproducibility results of the NWB and the AMTI. Thus, NWB has the potential to replace the AMTI in field settings in studies including children. Future studies are needed to examine intra-subject variability and to test the predictive validity of NWB. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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