High Specificity of Single Inertial Sensor-Supplemented Timed Up and Go Test for Assessing Fall Risk in Elderly Nursing Home Residents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Population
2.2. Protocol
2.3. Division of the TUG into Subtasks and Selected Kinematic Parameters
2.4. Statistical Analysis
- (M0) only parameter used when comparing F and NF groups (TUG in Table 2);
- (M1) all parameters with used when comparing F and NF groups (kinTUG in Table 2): ;
- (M2) all parameters with used when comparing F and NF groups (iTUG in Table 2): and = ;
- (M3) all parameters with used when comparing F and NF groups (i + TUG in Table 2): , , = Walking aid required (Yes = 1, No = 0) and = Gender (M = 1, F = 0);
- (M4) all parameters with when comparing F and NF groups (i + TUG2 in Table 2): , = , = Walking aid required, = Gender, = and = .
3. Results
3.1. Population
3.2. F versus NF Comparison
3.3. Multiple Logistic Regressions
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Parameter | F | NF | p |
---|---|---|---|
Residents (n) | 24 | 49 | |
Age (years) | 0.646 | ||
66–96 | 65–96 | ||
Medication | 4 [2–5] | 3 [2–5] | |
FRAT | 11 [10–14] | 10 [8–12] | |
(s) | 24.5 ± 8.5 | 21.5 ± 8.1 | 0.096 |
Gender (M/F) | 6/18 | 22/27 | 0.128 |
Walking aid required (Yes/No) | 15/9 | 21/28 | 0.140 |
Post-stroke hemiparesis (Yes/No) | 2/21 | 4/45 | 0.677 |
Possibility of dementia (Yes/No) | 3/21 | 9/40 | 0.739 |
Alzheimer disease (Yes/No) | 5/19 | 14/35 | 0.577 |
Previous heart surgery (Yes/No) | 8/16 | 9/40 | 0.238 |
Diabetic polyneuropathy (Yes/No) | 3/21 | 8/41 | 1 |
Hip or knee replacement (Yes/No) | 3/21 | 9/40 | 0.739 |
Parameters | M0 | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(TUG) | (kinTUG) | (iTUG) | (i + TUG) | (i + TUG2) | |
−1.709 | 1.423 | 0.822 | 1.207 | 1.553 | |
−0.0245 | −0.0213 | −0.0208 | −0.0231 | ||
0.0434 | 0.0139 | −0.0046 | 0.0197 | ||
Walking aid required | 0.403 | 0.333 | |||
Gender | −0.637 | −0.649 | |||
−0.0027 | |||||
− 0.124 | |||||
Performance Indicators | |||||
(%) | 8.3 | 8.3 | 12.5 | 29.2 | 20.8 |
(%) | 95.9 | 91.8 | 91.8 | 95.9 | 91.8 |
(%) | 67.1 | 64.4 | 65.7 | 74.0 | 68.5 |
Parameters | F | NF | p |
---|---|---|---|
(° s) | 0.031 | ||
0.203 | |||
(s) | 0.293 | ||
0.304 | |||
(° s) | 0.315 | ||
(s) | 0.338 | ||
(s) | 0.545 | ||
(s) | 0.569 | ||
(s) | 0.634 | ||
(s) | 0.773 |
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Dierick, F.; Stoffel, P.-L.; Schütz, G.; Buisseret, F. High Specificity of Single Inertial Sensor-Supplemented Timed Up and Go Test for Assessing Fall Risk in Elderly Nursing Home Residents. Sensors 2022, 22, 2339. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062339
Dierick F, Stoffel P-L, Schütz G, Buisseret F. High Specificity of Single Inertial Sensor-Supplemented Timed Up and Go Test for Assessing Fall Risk in Elderly Nursing Home Residents. Sensors. 2022; 22(6):2339. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062339
Chicago/Turabian StyleDierick, Frédéric, Pierre-Loup Stoffel, Gaston Schütz, and Fabien Buisseret. 2022. "High Specificity of Single Inertial Sensor-Supplemented Timed Up and Go Test for Assessing Fall Risk in Elderly Nursing Home Residents" Sensors 22, no. 6: 2339. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062339
APA StyleDierick, F., Stoffel, P.-L., Schütz, G., & Buisseret, F. (2022). High Specificity of Single Inertial Sensor-Supplemented Timed Up and Go Test for Assessing Fall Risk in Elderly Nursing Home Residents. Sensors, 22(6), 2339. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062339