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Internal consistency of assessment set of clinical features of patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological impairment
Jurčáková, Andrea ; Řasová, Kamila (advisor) ; Neuwirthová, Svatava (referee)
Title: Internal consistency of assessment set of clinical features of patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological impairment. Objectives: The aim of this work is to verify the internal consistency of Assessment set of clinical features in patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological disability that would comprehensively and objectively judged effect of physiotherapy in patients with MS. Method: Clinical Examination set of functions includes well-known, standard and validated assessments that evaluate the function associated with the central movement disorders focusing on the clinical manifestations of RS (Low-Contrast Letter Acuity Test contrasting vision, Motricity Index assesses muscle strength, spasticity Modified Ashworth Scale, Berg balance Scale equilibrium, Nine Hole Peg Test investigate fine motor skills, Timed 25 - Foot Walk assess walking speed over a distance of 7.5 m, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test investigates cognitive function, and auditory information processing speed, simple computational skills and ability to concentrate after the duration of the test. Belong to this set as evaluation of righting, equilibrium and protective reactions, examination dysdiadochokinesia, ataxia, and test evaluation...
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Multiple sclerosis cerebrospinal - clinical tests reliability assesment
Rýdlová, Zuzana ; Řasová, Kamila (advisor) ; Joachimová, Marie (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to verify inter-rater reliability and internal consistency of clinical tests included in battery of tests. The battery is composed of 12 tests - Low-Contrast Letter Acuity, Nine Hole Peg Test, Timed 25 - Foot Walk, Paced Auditory Serial Addition, Motoricity Index, Modified Ashworth Scale, Berg Balance Scale and tests of postural reactions, knee hyperextension, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia and ataxia. We evaluated inter-rater reliability by measuring the equality between two sets of results obtained by two observers investigating independently the same set of nine patients. To this aim we used two statistical methods: Intraclass corelation coefficient and Bland-Atman's graphs. Internal consistency was examined by applying Cohen's alpha coefficient. Satisfactory inter-rater reliability was found at 10 tests, only Modified Ashworth Scale and ataxia assesment indicate lower value. Internal consistency is sufficient at 10 tests, only tremor assesment and Motoricity Index didn't fulfill our criteria. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Internal consistency of assessment set of clinical features of patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological impairment
Jurčáková, Andrea ; Řasová, Kamila (advisor) ; Neuwirthová, Svatava (referee)
Title: Internal consistency of assessment set of clinical features of patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological impairment. Objectives: The aim of this work is to verify the internal consistency of Assessment set of clinical features in patients with multiple sclerosis and its correlation with the degree of neurological disability that would comprehensively and objectively judged effect of physiotherapy in patients with MS. Method: Clinical Examination set of functions includes well-known, standard and validated assessments that evaluate the function associated with the central movement disorders focusing on the clinical manifestations of RS (Low-Contrast Letter Acuity Test contrasting vision, Motricity Index assesses muscle strength, spasticity Modified Ashworth Scale, Berg balance Scale equilibrium, Nine Hole Peg Test investigate fine motor skills, Timed 25 - Foot Walk assess walking speed over a distance of 7.5 m, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test investigates cognitive function, and auditory information processing speed, simple computational skills and ability to concentrate after the duration of the test. Belong to this set as evaluation of righting, equilibrium and protective reactions, examination dysdiadochokinesia, ataxia, and test evaluation...
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