App-based Self-administrable Clinical Tests of Physical Function: Development and Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective measures of physical function in older adults are widely used to predict health outcomes such as disability, institutionalization, and mortality. App-based clinical tests allow users to assess their own physical function and have objective tracking of changes over time by use of their smartphones. Such tests can potentially guide interventions remotely and provide more detailed prognostic information about the participant's physical performance for the users, therapists, and other health care personnel. We developed 3 smartphone apps with instrumented versions of the Timed Up and Go (Self-TUG), tandem stance (Self-Tandem), and Five Times Sit-to-Stand (Self-STS) tests.

Objective

This study aimed to test the usability of 3 smartphone app-based self-tests o

SUBMITTER: Bergquist R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7215517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature