Motor activity across delirium motor subtypes in geriatric patients assessed using body-worn sensors: a Norwegian cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

It remains unclear if geriatric patients with different delirium motor subtypes express different levels of motor activity. Thus, we used two accelerometer-based devices to simultaneously measure upright activity and wrist activity across delirium motor subtypes in geriatric patients.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Settings

Geriatric ward in a university hospital in Norway.

Participants

Sixty acutely admitted patients, ≥75 years, with DSM-5-delirium.

Outcome measures

Upright activity measured as upright time (minutes) and sit-to-stand transitions (numbers), total wrist activity (counts) and wrist activity in a sedentary position (WAS, per cent of the sedentary time) during 24 hours ongoing Delirium Motor Subtype Scalesubtyped delirium.

Resul

SUBMITTER: Evensen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature