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Responsiveness of Mini-Balance Evaluation System Test (Mini-BESTest) in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy

Completed
Conditions
Participants with Balance impairment of Type 2 diabetic peripheral neuropathy
balance impairment of Type 2 diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Registration Number
TCTR20210203002
Lead Sponsor
Back, Neck and Other Joint Pain and Human Performance
Brief Summary

There was found a significant improvement to compare between at baseline and after the intervention. A large effect size of 3.9 was found. The change score of Mini-BESTest was 5.5 points after splitting the data of Mini-BESTest change score on the ROC curve corresponding to the GRC greater than or equal 3 and less than 3.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
48
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients aged between 40 to70 years, 2. Diagnosis as type 2 diabetes with well-controlled blood glucose based on follow up three times of medical assessments according to medical records, 3. Screened with Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) and have a MNSI score greater than or equal 2.5 out of 10 by the researcher (Herman et al. 2012), 4. Diabetic duration of more than 5 years according to the
medical record, 5. Balance impairment assessed by Mini-BESTest score less than or equal 20.5, 6. Able to understand the instructions by mini-mental state examination (MMSE ) (Roman de Mettelinge et al., 2013)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Diagnosis as peripheral venous insufficiency, cardiac, renal
or hepatic insufficiency, uncontrolled hypertension or
myopathic by medical record 2. Diagnosis as central nervous system dysfunction (such as stroke, Parkinson disease, and cerebral ataxia) by medical record, 3. Foot ulcers by physical examination, 4. Contraindications of massage such as fever, recentoperations or acute injuries, skin diseases, varicose veins,
undiagnosed pain, inflammation, osteoarthritis according to
the medical record by physical examination, 5. Fracture of the lower limbs within the 6 months before the
study by physical examination, 6. Partial or complete blindness by physical examination, 7. Severe auditory problems by physical examination (Chatchawan et al., 2015) (Marques et al. 2017)

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Mini-BESTest at day 1 and at 1 month Balance score
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
/A N/A N/A
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