Reliability of the Incremental Shuttle Walk Test in University Students

Siirt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Incremental Shuttle Walk Test

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06638281

2024/05/01/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in university students.

Full description

The incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) is a valid and reliable field test developed to evaluate functional exercise capacity. This test requires the participant to walk up and down a 10 m course marked by two cones placed 9 m apart. The walking speed, determined by an audio signal, is slow at first, but gradually increases every minute.

Although validity and reliability studies have been conducted in different disease groups and healthy populations, there is no study evaluating the inter-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in healthy individuals. Our research aims to evaluate the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in university students.For this purpose, undergraduate nursing students will be included in our research.ISWT will be administered to students by two different researchers on the same day. For test-retest reliability the ISWT will be administered again by the same researchers on a different day (retest).

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 26 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a student of Siirt University Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department
• Being between the ages of 18-26
• Understanding and speaking Turkish

Exclusion criteria

• Having a systemic, orthopedic or neurological disease
• Participant wishes to withdraw from the study