Reliability and agreement of a novel portable laser height metre.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human height is a simple measure with great applicability. Usually, stadiometers are used to measure height accurately. However, these may be impractical to transport and expensive. Therefore, we developed a portable and low-cost laser height metre (LHM).

Objective

We aimed to (1) determine intrarater and interrater reliability of our LHM and compare it to a wall-fixed stadiometer, (2) examine its agreement with the same stadiometer, and (3) determine the minimum number of recordings needed to obtain an accurate and reliable height measurement using the LHM.

Methods

We recruited 32 participants (18+ years)-both men and women. Two raters performed assessments on the same day blinded to each other and their reference standard measurements. We calculated intra

SUBMITTER: Sorensen GVB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141692 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature