Clinical trial NCT03874078: Turkish Version of Kids BESTest, Validity and Reliability for School-Aged Children
Official title: Turkish Version of Kids-BESTest (Balance Evaluation Systems Test) and Kids-Mini-BESTest, Validity and Reliability for School-Aged Children
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Children, Only
Adolescent
Keywords: school children
balance
Lead sponsor: T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-03-14
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Typical developing school-aged children (8-14 years)

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to present the Turkish version of Kids-BESTest and Kids-Mini-BESTest and practice of validity and reliability on school-aged children will be performed by utilizing the Turkish version of Kids-BESTest and Kids-Mini-BESTest in this study.

Detailed description: Postural control is the ability to control the body position in space for the purpose of postural stability.

Full-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) comprises 36 items and evaluate all components of postural control. Full-BESTest classifies postural control across six domains as: Biomechanical constraints, Stability Limits/Verticality, Transitions - Anticipatory Postural Adjustment, Reactive Postural Response, Sensory Orientation and Stability in Gait. Items in each domain are scored from 0 (worst performance) to 3 (best performance), all requires 30 minutes (maximum score is 108).

Because of the clinical time limits, MiniBESTest is a shortened version of BESTest was developed with 14 tasks. MiniBESTest still addresses almost all components of postural control and can be performed 15 min. MiniBESTest is one of the most common methods practiced for adult patients. Recently BESTest and miniBESTest had modified by Dewar et al for 8-14 aged children which termed Kids-BESTest and Kids-Mini-BESTest.

The aim of this study is to present the Turkish version of Kids-BESTest and Kids-Mini-BESTest and practice of validity and reliability on school-aged children will be performed by utilizing the Turkish version of Kids-BESTest and Kids-Mini-BESTest in this study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Typical developing school-aged children who are volunteers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Has medical or behavioural disorders

Primary outcomes:
measure: Kids BESTest
timeFrame: 30 minutes.
measure: Kids Mini- BESTest
timeFrame: 15 minutes
measure: The Four Square Step Test (FSST)
timeFrame: 3minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
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Study officials:
References:
citation: Dewar R, Claus AP, Tucker K, Ware R, Johnston LM. Reproducibility of the Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) and the Mini-BESTest in school-aged children. Gait Posture. 2017 Jun;55:68-74. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.04.010. Epub 2017 Apr 6.
citation: Dewar R, Claus AP, Tucker K, Ware RS, Johnston LM. Reproducibility of the Kids-BESTest and the Kids-Mini-BESTest for Children With Cerebral Palsy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Apr;100(4):695-702. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.12.021. Epub 2019 Jan 9.
citation: Horak FB, Wrisley DM, Frank J. The Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) to differentiate balance deficits. Phys Ther. 2009 May;89(5):484-98. doi: 10.2522/ptj.20080071. Epub 2009 Mar 27.