Open Access<p>The Frail’BESTest. An Adaptation of the “Balance Evaluation System Test” for Frail Older Adults. Description, Internal Consistency and Inter-Rater Reliability</p>
Author(s) -
Alexandre Kubicki,
Marine Brika,
Loïc Coquisart,
Giorgio Basile,
Davy Laroche,
France Mourey
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s247332
Subject(s) - medicine , reliability (semiconductor) , internal consistency , adaptation (eye) , balance (ability) , test (biology) , consistency (knowledge bases) , gerontology , reliability engineering , inter rater reliability , physical medicine and rehabilitation , statistics , psychometrics , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , rating scale , power (physics) , paleontology , mathematics , computer science , engineering , biology , physics , quantum mechanics
The Balance Evaluation System Test (BESTest) and the Mini-BESTest were developed to assess the complementary systems that contribute to balance function. These tests include functional tasks involving several high-level exercises to assess the balance function, which may be even more difficult in case of frailty. The Frail'BESTest has been developed to make it possible to include frail older adults in systemic assessment. In this first paper, the objective is to present the Frail'BESTest and to describe the usefulness and complementarity of each system and to test the inter-rater reliability of the score measurements in two health centers.