Clinical trial NCT05221099: Reliability and Validity of Urdu Version of Mini-BESTest in Persons With Parkinson's Disease
Official title: Is the Urdu Version of Mini-BESTest a Reliable and Valid Tool for Assessing the Dynamic Balance Impairments of Patients With Parkinson's Disease?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Balance
Keywords: Balance; Mini-BESTest; Parkinson's ; reliability; validity
Lead sponsor: Riphah International University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-02
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The incidence of Parkinson disease increases by age especially after the age of 60 As we know equilibrium and postural control are essential for everyday work so postural instability, freezing of gait, impaired anticipatory and reactive balance, impaired cognition ,reduced leg muscle strength, reduced proprioception, and frontal lobe impairment are major cause of balance impairment and falls in persons with Parkinson disease and falling puts persons with Parkinson disease at a higher risk of fractures, soft tissue injury, immobilization, depression, daily activity restriction, and mortality

Brief summary: Various clinical scales are available to investigate balance impairment, Mini-BESTest is one of them. Thus, this study aims to translate the Mini-BESTest into Urdu and investigate its psychometric properties in the Pakistani Parkinson's population with dynamic balance impairment.

Detailed description: The aim of study is to translate and culturally adapt Mini-BESTest into Urdu language and secondly to investigate the reliability and validity of Urdu Version of Mini-BEStest in Parkinson's Pakistani population. This study will be cross sectional survey study in which convenience sampling technique will be used.

The results of study will help to know the validity and reliability of Mini-BESTest in Urdu version with dynamic balance impairments in Parkinson's population. The reliability of the scale will be checked through internal consistency and test-retest methods. Internal consistency will be analyzed with Cronbach's alpha value. Test-retest reliability will be assessed using an intraclass correlation coefficient with 80 patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. All persons with Parkinson disease and ability to follow commands were included in the study.
2. living independently in the community
3. able to walk 6 m independently
4. willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of other neurological disorders
2. Musculoskeletal damage which affects walking ability
3. Presence of serious medical condition
4. History of surgical treatments for Parkinson disease
5. Not willing to participate in the study
6. history of faint, vertigo, dizziness,or taking medications which can cause dizziness
7. history of any medical condition which can affect balance.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mini-BESTest Scale
timeFrame: 1st day
measure: Berg Balance Scale
timeFrame: 1st day
measure: Brief -BESTest Scale
timeFrame: 1st day
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Faisalabad
country: Pakistan
facility: Ripah International University
state: Punjab
Study officials:
affiliation: Riphah International University
name: Muhammad Kashif
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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