NCT01789996

The Six Minute Walk Test: Influence of Instruction on Results

Alternative Instruction in Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Inova Health Care Services · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Two - four 6MWT performed according to ATS standards. Each walk however had specifically altered wording and coaching performed in random order to determine differences in outcomes. One walk was done in the standard ATS fashion. One was done coaching to walk as fast as the patient can walk. One was coached to walk at the patients normal walking pace. One was coached to walk at the patient's leisure walking pace.

Detailed description

Alternate 6MWT where subjects will be asked to walk as fast as they can, walk as normal as they can and walk leisurely as they can in 6 minutes compared to standard of care 6MWT which is walk as far as you can in 6 minutes.

Conditions

• Interstitial Lung Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	alternative six minute walk test	Alternate instructions will be given Subjects will 1. walk as fast as they can in 6 minutes 2. walk as normally as they can in 6 minutes 3. walk leisurely as they can in 6 minutes. Pts will serve as their own controls.
PROCEDURE	Standard six minute walk test	Subjects will walk as far as they can in 6 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-02-12
• Last updated: 2020-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States