Reliability of the Incremental Shuttle Walk Test in University Students

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06638281

Enrollment

Registered

2024-10-15

Start date

2024-11-04

Completion date

2025-02-25

Last updated

2025-02-26

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Conditions

Incremental Shuttle Walk Test

Keywords

exercise tolerance, exercise test, Test-Retest Reliability, Reliability of Results

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in university students.

Detailed description

The incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) is a valid and reliable field test developed to evaluate functional exercise capacity. This test requires the participant to walk up and down a 10 m course marked by two cones placed 9 m apart. The walking speed, determined by an audio signal, is slow at first, but gradually increases every minute. Although validity and reliability studies have been conducted in different disease groups and healthy populations, there is no study evaluating the inter-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in healthy individuals. Our research aims to evaluate the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the incremental shuttle walk test in university students.For this purpose, undergraduate nursing students will be included in our research.ISWT will be administered to students by two different researchers on the same day. For test-retest reliability the ISWT will be administered again by the same researchers on a different day (retest).

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 26 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Being a student of Siirt University Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department * Being between the ages of 18-26 * Understanding and speaking Turkish

Exclusion criteria

* Having a systemic, orthopedic or neurological disease * Participant wishes to withdraw from the study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Incremental Shuttle Walk Test Results	At baseline and within 2-7 days after first assessment	The number of completed shuttles will be recorded, and the total incremental shuttle walk distance (ISWD) will be calculated. Heart rate (HR), arterial blood pressure, saturation, perceived dyspnea, and fatigue according to the modified Borg scale will be assessed before, at the end of the test, and after a 5-min recovery.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Age	Baseline	Age in years
Weight	Baseline	Weight (kg)
Height	Baseline	Height (m)
Smoking Status	Baseline	Smoking status will be recorded

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results