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Reliability and Validity of Kinect Detector for Fitness Tests and Gait Performance Analysis

Conditions
Healthy Adults
Interventions
Other: no intervention
Registration Number
NCT03733613
Lead Sponsor
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Brief Summary

Background: Depending on nature and needs, physical fitness can be divided into healthy fitness and physical fitness (also known as competitive fitness). Healthy fitness includes cardio-respiratory fitness, muscle fitness, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Physical fitness includes coordination, speed, explosiveness, balance, agility, and reaction time. Although the monitoring of fitness is very important, most of the tests need to be assisted by professionally trained fitness inspectors, so that the public who wants to regularly check their fitness status will facing a dilemma-- insufficient of inspectors. In the face of such a situation, the somatosensory detector may be a choice which is relatively objective, convenient and no need to rely on the inspectors. Therefore, the validity and retest reliability of the somatosensory detector need to be verified in order to achieve accurate and objective measurement results.

Detailed Description

Background: Depending on nature and needs, physical fitness can be divided into healthy fitness and physical fitness (also known as competitive fitness). Healthy fitness includes cardio-respiratory fitness, muscle fitness, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Physical fitness includes coordination, speed, explosiveness, balance, agility, and reaction time. Although the monitoring of fitness is very important, most of the tests need to be assisted by professionally trained fitness inspectors, so that the public who wants to regularly check their fitness status will facing a dilemma-- insufficient of inspectors. In the face of such a situation, the somatosensory detector may be a choice which is relatively objective, convenient and no need to rely on the inspectors. Therefore, the validity and retest reliability of the somatosensory detector need to be verified in order to achieve accurate and objective measurement results.

Research purposes: To verify the retest reliability and validity of the somatosensory detector on physical fitness and gait performance.

Methods: The trial will enroll 60 subjects, 30 of them were healthy individuals between the ages of 20 and 65, and 30 are healthy elderly than 65 years of age. The exclusion criteria including: (1) those who are unable to follow the instructions and who have orthopedic, nervous system or cardiopulmonary system disorders, or who have abnormal gait pattern, or who are affected by the above physiological system disorders. Subjects will receive two tests, there's a one-week interval between each test. In the first test, the fitness assessment of the fitness inspector and the somatosensory detector was performed simultaneously, and the fitness evaluation of the somatosensory detector was performed only for the second time. And use statistical software to analyze the reliability and validity of the somatosensory detector.

Statistical Analysis: Using SPSS 20.0 for data archiving and statistical analysis, the reliability and validity of the test will be detected by intraclass correlation one-way random model, and presenting by the intraclass correlation coefficient and 95% confidence interval.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • healthy adults
Exclusion Criteria
  • those unable to follow to instructions
  • those have abnormal gait pattern which caused by orthopedics system disorders, nervous system disorders or cardio-respiratory disorders
  • those with abnormal movement performance which caused by physiological system obstacles

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Healthy adultsno interventionSubjects will receive pre and post-test, in order to verify the test-retest reliability of the Somatosensory detector
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Gait speedChange from baseline at one week

Gait speed is calculated using distance in meters and time in seconds.

Gait stride lengthChange from baseline at one week

The stride length is the distance between two successive placements of the same foot.

Gait cadenceChange from baseline at one week

Cadence is the rate at which a person walk, expressed in steps per minute.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
30 seconds sit-stand-sit testChange from baseline at one week

To test functional muscle strength of lower extremities

One leg standing testChange from baseline at one week

To test balance ability

Functional forward reach testChange from baseline at one week

To test functional balance performance

Upper arm curl testChange from baseline at one week

To test functional muscle strength of upper extremities

Timed up and go testChange from baseline at one week

To test functional balance performance

2 minutes stepping testChange from baseline at one week

To test cardiopulmonary ability

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Yang-Ming University

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Taipei, Taiwan

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