Trial reportBritish journal of sports medicine1999
Reliability of ratings of perceived exertion during progressive treadmill exercise.
Trial report in British journal of sports medicine, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05568004 (The Effect of Different Exercise Types on Migraine Frequency in Individuals With Migraine), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers.
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The Effect of Different Exercise Types on Migraine Frequency in Individuals With Migraine :Randomized Controlled Study
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41 citing papers in PubMed.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the test-retest reliability (repeatability) of Borg's 6-20 rating of perceived exertion (RPE) scale using a more appropriate statistical technique than has been employed in previous investigations. The RPE scale is used widely in exercise science and sports medicine to monitor and/or prescribe levels of exercise intensity. The "95% limits of agreement" technique has recently been advocated as a better means of assessing within-subject (trial to trial) agreement than traditional indicators such as Pearson and intraclass correlation coefficients.
methodsSixteen male athletes (mean (SD) age 23.6 (5.1) years) completed two identical multistage (incremental) treadmill running protocols over a period of two to five days. RPEs were requested and recorded during the final 15 seconds of each three minute stage. All subjects successfully completed at least four stages in each trial, allowing the reliability of RPE responses to be examined at each stage.
resultsThe 95% limits of agreement (bias +/- 1.96 x SDdiff) were found to widen as exercise intensity increased: 0.88 (2.02) RPE units (stage 1), 0.25 (2.53) RPE units (stage 2), -0.13 (2.86) RPE units (stage 3), and -0.13 (2.94) RPE units (stage 4). Pearson correlations (0.81, 0.72, 0.65, and 0.60) and intraclass correlations (0.82, 0.80, 0.77, and 0.75) decreased as exercise intensity increased.
conclusionsThese findings question the test-retest reliability of the RPE scale when used to monitor subjective estimates of exercise intensity in progressive (or graded) exercise tests.
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