PMID- 21528634
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110524
LR  - 20220321
IS  - 1079-0268 (Print)
IS  - 2045-7723 (Electronic)
IS  - 1079-0268 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
DP  - 2011
TI  - Evaluation of activity monitors in manual wheelchair users with paraplegia.
PG  - 110-7
AB  - OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of SenseWear 
      (SW) and RT3 activity monitors (AMs) in estimating energy expenditure (EE) in 
      manual wheelchair users (MWUs) with paraplegia for a variety of physical 
      activities. METHODS: Twenty-four subjects completed four activities including 
      resting, wheelchair propulsion, arm-ergometry exercise, and deskwork. The 
      criterion EE was measured by a K4b2 portable metabolic cart. The EE estimated by 
      the SW and RT3 were compared with the criterion EE by the absolute differences 
      and absolute percentage errors. Intraclass correlations and the Bland and Altman 
      plots were also used to assess the agreements between the two AMs and the 
      metabolic cart. Correlations between the criterion EE and the estimated EE and 
      sensors data from the AMs were evaluated. RESULTS: The EE estimation errors for 
      the AMs varied from 24.4 to 125.8% for the SW and from 22.0 to 52.8% for the RT3. 
      The intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) between the criterion EE and the 
      EE estimated by the two AMs for each activity and all activities as a whole were 
      considered poor with all the ICCs smaller than 0.75. Except for deskwork, the EE 
      from the SW was more correlated to the criterion EE than the EE from the RT3. 
      CONCLUSION: The results indicate that neither of the AMs is an appropriate tool 
      for quantifying physical activity in MWUs with paraplegia. However, the accuracy 
      of EE estimation could be potentially improved by building new regression models 
      based on wheelchair-related activities.
FAU - Hiremath, Shivayogi V
AU  - Hiremath SV
AD  - Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs, 
      Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
FAU - Ding, Dan
AU  - Ding D
LA  - eng
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - J Spinal Cord Med
JT  - The journal of spinal cord medicine
JID - 9504452
SB  - IM
MH  - Actigraphy/instrumentation/*methods/standards
MH  - Adult
MH  - Energy Metabolism/physiology
MH  - Exercise/physiology
MH  - Exercise Test/instrumentation/*methods/standards
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Motor Activity
MH  - Paraplegia/metabolism/*physiopathology
MH  - Regression Analysis
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Rest/physiology
MH  - *Wheelchairs
PMC - PMC3066485
EDAT- 2011/05/03 06:00
MHDA- 2011/05/25 06:00
PMCR- 2012/01/01
CRDT- 2011/05/03 06:00
PHST- 2011/05/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/05/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/05/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - scm-34-110 [pii]
AID - 10.1179/107902610X12911165975142 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Spinal Cord Med. 2011;34(1):110-7. doi: 10.1179/107902610X12911165975142.