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http://dx.doi.org/10.14474/ptrs.2018.7.3.102

Minimal Clinically Important Difference of Berg Balance Scale scores in people with acute stroke  

Song, Min-Jeong (Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Daejeon University)
Lee, Jae-Hyoung (Department of Physical Therapy, Wonkwang Health Science University)
Shin, Won-Seob (Department of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Daejeon University)
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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science / v.7, no.3, 2018 , pp. 102-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective: To investigate whether the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) clinically defines improvement of Berg Balance Scale (BBS) scores in people with acute stroke in response to rehabilitation. Design: Retrospective study. Methods: Seventy-three participants with acute stroke participated in the study. Balance evaluation was performed using the BBS. All patients received rehabilitation with physical therapy for 4 weeks, 5 times a week, for 2 hours and 20 minutes a day. An anchor-based approach using the clinical global impression was used to determine the MCID of the BBS. The MCID was used to define the minimum change in the BBS total score (postintervention-preintervention) that was needed to perceive at least a 3-point improvement on the global rating of change. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves was used to define the cut-off values of the optimal MCID of the BBS in order to discriminate between improvement and no improvement groups. Results: The optimal MCID cut-off point for the BBS change scores was 12.5 points for males with a sensitivity (Sn) of 0.62 and a specificity (Sp) of 0.89, and 12.5 points for females with a Sn of 0.69 and Sp of 0.85. The area under the curve of the ROC curve for all participants were 0.84 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.72; 0.95, p<0.001), and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.77; 1.00, p<0.001), respectively. Conclusions: The MCID for improvement in balance as measured by the BBS was 13.5 points, indicating that the MCID does clinically detect changes in balance abilities in persons with stroke.
Keywords
Minimal clinically important difference; Retrospective study; Stroke;
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