NCT05221099

Reliability and Validity of Urdu Version of Mini-BESTest in Persons With Parkinson's Disease

Is the Urdu Version of Mini-BESTest a Reliable and Valid Tool for Assessing the Dynamic Balance Impairments of Patients With Parkinson's Disease?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Various clinical scales are available to investigate balance impairment, Mini-BESTest is one of them. Thus, this study aims to translate the Mini-BESTest into Urdu and investigate its psychometric properties in the Pakistani Parkinson's population with dynamic balance impairment.

Detailed description

The aim of study is to translate and culturally adapt Mini-BESTest into Urdu language and secondly to investigate the reliability and validity of Urdu Version of Mini-BEStest in Parkinson's Pakistani population. This study will be cross sectional survey study in which convenience sampling technique will be used. The results of study will help to know the validity and reliability of Mini-BESTest in Urdu version with dynamic balance impairments in Parkinson's population. The reliability of the scale will be checked through internal consistency and test-retest methods. Internal consistency will be analyzed with Cronbach's alpha value. Test-retest reliability will be assessed using an intraclass correlation coefficient with 80 patients.

Conditions

• Balance

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-30
• Primary completion: 2022-02-05
• Completion: 2022-02-15
• First posted: 2022-02-02
• Last updated: 2022-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan