NCT06087172

Validity of 6 Minutes Stepper Test in Hypertension

Validity and Reliability of 6 Minutes Stepper Test in Hypertensive Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ebru Calik Kutukcu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The six minutes stepper test (6MST) was used assess exercise capacity of individuals having different chronic conditions. In the literature, there are some validation studies analyzing validity of 6MST. In this study, the main aim was to analyse validation of 6MST in hypertensive individuals.

Detailed description

6MST is a space-safe, feasible and sensitive test to assess exercise capacity. In the literature, there are lots of field tests assessing exercise capacity of individuals with chronic status. But common field tests eg 6MWT requires long spaces and it could become an important barrier in clinical settings. Hypertension is a common chronic disease and hypertensive individuals are important candidates of cardiac rehabilitation. As an important outcome assesing exercise capacity are very important before and after cardiac rehabilitation. In this study, the main aim was to investigate reliability and validity of 6MST in systemic hypertension.

Conditions

• Arterial Hypertension
• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Six Minutes Stepper Test (6MST)	Patients were applied two 6MST and 6MWT. 6MWT was conducted to test convergent validity of 6MST.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2023-10-17
• Last updated: 2023-10-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)