ArticleFrontiers in neurology2023
When 'good' is not good enough: a retrospective Rasch analysis study of the Berg Balance Scale for persons with Multiple Sclerosis.
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- Impact of Anxious and/or Depressive Reactive State on the Effectiveness of Rehabilitation of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Rasch analysis of the forgotten joint score in patients with total hip arthroplasty.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Validity of the Berg Balance Scale in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A Rasch Analysis.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
- Investigating the clinical pattern of motor relearning in people with multiple sclerosis.Archives of physiotherapyArticle
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Abstract
Background: The Berg Balance Scale (BBS) is one of the most used tools to quantify balance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis, a population at high risk of falling. Aim: To evaluate the measurement characteristics of the BBS in Multiple Sclerosis through Rasch analysis. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Outpatients in three Italian Rehabilitation centers. Population: Eight hundred and fourteen persons with Multiple Sclerosis able to stand independently for more than 3 s. Methods: The sample ( Results: The base analysis on the B1 subsample failed the monotonicity, local independence, and unidimensionality requirements and did not fit the Rasch model. After grouping locally dependent items, the BBS-MS fitted the model ( Conclusion: This study supports the internal construct validity and reliability of the BBS-MS in an Italian multicentre sample of persons with Multiple Sclerosis. However, as the scale is slightly mistargeted to the sample, it represents a candidate tool to assess balance, mainly in more disabled people with an advanced walking disability.
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