Turkish Version of the Mini-BESTest: Transcultural Adaptation and Validation Study in Stroke Patients

Istanbul Medeniyet University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Balance; Distorted; Stroke

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Functional Reach Test; Diagnostic Test: mini-BESTest (Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test); Diagnostic Test: Berg Balance Scale; Diagnostic Test: Timed Up and Go Test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04568070

IMU Stroke

Details and patient eligibility

About

"mini-BESTest (Turkish version)", "Berg Balance Test", "Timed Up and Go Test" and "Functional Reach Test" will be used for balance measurement in patients and the correlation of the mini-BEST with these tests will be checked.

Full description

The first part of the study is the Turkish translation of mini-BESTest. After the translation process, "mini-BESTest (Turkish version)", "Berg Balance Test", "Timed Up and Go Test" and "Functional Reach Test" will be used for balance measurement in patients and the correlation of the mini-BEST with these tests will be checked. All tests will be applied by 2 researchers on the same day, 2 times with 10 minutes intervals.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Chronic stroke patients
2. Patients who can execute commands
3. Patients who are ambulatory enough to complete most balance tasks
4. Patients participating in the study voluntarily

Exclusion criteria

1. Acute stroke patients
2. Patients who cannot execute commands
3. Non-ambulatory patients
4. Pediatric patients and pregnant patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Stroke

Experimental group

Description:

Stroke patients who applied to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation outpatient clinic, met the inclusion criteria and volunteered to participate in the study

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Berg Balance Scale

Diagnostic Test: Functional Reach Test

Diagnostic Test: mini-BESTest (Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test)

Diagnostic Test: Timed Up and Go Test