PMID- 21574772
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120111
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1532-5040 (Electronic)
IS  - 0959-3985 (Linking)
VI  - 27
IP  - 7
DP  - 2011 Oct
TI  - Development, reliability, and validity of the Sitting Balance Scale.
PG  - 471-81
LID - 10.3109/09593985.2010.531077 [doi]
AB  - The Sitting Balance Scale (SBS) measures sitting balance for frail older adults 
      who are primarily nonambulatory. Purposes were to generate items representing 
      different functional abilities of sitting balance, reduce the number of items to 
      make a clinically useful tool, refine the assessment, and establish reliability 
      and validity. The study was conducted in multiple phases, with qualitative and 
      quantitative methodologies. Content development used nominal group process, 
      expert narratives, and literature review. After consensus was reached on content 
      and scoring, item reduction began. Item retention and deletion decisions were 
      based on a combination of practical considerations during field testing, expert 
      and experienced clinician opinion of clinical relevance, and statistical 
      information. Item retention or deletion decisions were based in part on the 
      internal consistency analysis of the 19-item SBS based on 256 scores, which 
      included participants who were apparently healthy and those with pathology. We 
      applied a decision matrix to yield the final 11-item version. The 11-item SBS 
      demonstrated good internal consistency (alpha = 0.762), intrarater rater reliability 
      (ICC(3,1) = 0.96 to 0.99), and interrater reliability (ICC(2,1) = 0.87). On the 
      basis of analysis of 156 scores, construct and concurrent validity were 
      established. The SBS appears to meet the criteria required to make it a useful 
      tool. The SBS can be used to assess sitting balance in frail individuals who are 
      primarily nonambulatory who might exhibit floor effects for traditionally used 
      balance measures. The SBS is the first attempt to assess lower balance abilities. 
      Further assessment of the tool's validity with larger and varied samples is 
      necessary.
FAU - Medley, Ann
AU  - Medley A
AD  - School of Physical Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Dallas, United States. 
      smedley@twu.edu
FAU - Thompson, Mary
AU  - Thompson M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20110515
PL  - England
TA  - Physiother Theory Pract
JT  - Physiotherapy theory and practice
JID - 9015520
SB  - IM
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Aging
MH  - *Disability Evaluation
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Frail Elderly
MH  - *Geriatric Assessment
MH  - *Health Status
MH  - *Health Status Indicators
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mobility Limitation
MH  - Observer Variation
MH  - Physical Therapy Specialty/*methods
MH  - *Postural Balance
MH  - *Posture
MH  - Predictive Value of Tests
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Texas
EDAT- 2011/05/18 06:00
MHDA- 2012/01/12 06:00
CRDT- 2011/05/18 06:00
PHST- 2011/05/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/05/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/01/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.3109/09593985.2010.531077 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Physiother Theory Pract. 2011 Oct;27(7):471-81. doi: 
      10.3109/09593985.2010.531077. Epub 2011 May 15.