NCT05544422

The Reliability and Validity Tele-assessment of The TUG Test and 30s-CST

Completed NA Last updated 4 June 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing The Timed Up & Go Test and 30second Chair-Stand Test' in Tele-assessment in 60 participants. Completed in 15 December 2022.

Timeline

15 October 2022

Primary endpoint
15 November 2022

15 December 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Istinye University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	60
Start date	15 October 2022
Primary completion	15 November 2022
Estimated completion	15 December 2022
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• The Timed Up & Go Test and 30second Chair-Stand Test'

Conditions studied

• Tele-assessment — all drugs for Tele-assessment →
• The Timed Up & Go Test — all drugs for The Timed Up & Go Test →
• Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →
• 30second Chair-Stand Test — all drugs for 30second Chair-Stand Test →

Sponsor

Istinye University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Tele-assessment or The Timed Up & Go Test. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the world after coronary heart disease and cancer. In recent years, by controlling the risk factors of stroke, its incidence has decreased by 30% and the mortality rate due to this disease has decreased by 14%. However, it is still among the most important diseases that cause disability in adults.

The aging of the world population and the increase in the number of individuals with chronic diseases, including stroke, increase the need for rehabilitation services rapidly. Access to rehabilitation services is restricted due to the insufficient number of specialist health personnel and the difficulty of transportation for people living in rural areas. At the same time, barriers such as decrease in physical mobility, increase in bothersome symptoms and travel restrictions in developed countries are expected to increase with the aging population and will cause a decrease in participation in rehabilitation. In this context, telerehabilitation shows a promising way to increase rehabilitation access with fewer healthcare professionals or to help maintain positive outcomes following rehabilitation.

Telerehabilitation, which is among the telehealth possibilities, is defined as the use of information and communication technologies to provide clinical rehabilitation services remotely. These technologies allow communication between healthcare personnel and patients, as well as the transmission of imaging and other healthcare data from one place to another. Telerehabilitation includes clinical rehabilitation services focused on evaluation, diagnosis and treatment (Janet vd.,). Tele-assessment, which is among the service delivery model of telerehabilitation, is defined as the transfer of patient data to the healthcare professional or team, instantly or retrospectively, through equipment, sensors, questionnaires and tests. Unlike other services, there are factors that make tele-assessment difficult. It is necessary to ensure that patient performance is correctly evaluated. Internet and video transmission can affect the ability to accurately assess patient performance and thus affect the tele-assessment. Consideration should be given to the validation of tele-assessment for certain assessments that are frequently used in the assessment of patient performance. For this reason, we chose to examine the timed 'Up \& Go'(TUG) test and '30second Chair-Stand Test' (30s-CST), which are the most common tests in the evaluation of lower extremity muscle strength, balance, and mobility in rehabilitation.

TUG and 30s-CST are simple clinical outcome measures commonly used to assess functional performance. Johansen et al. found that the TUG test and 30s-CST in stroke patients had excellent internal and inter-research reliability when administered face-to-face. This study is based on studies showing that the application of tests that are effective in the evaluation of functional performance with the tele-assessment method is an effective method.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.