Anthropometry Clinical Trial
Official title:
Within and Between-rater Reproducibility and Validity of a Novel Portable Laser Height Meter
Height may be used to calculate body mass index and reference interval for normal lung function, together with serving as an indicator for possible vertebral fractures in osteoporosis and growth retardation in children. Height is typically measured using the "gold standard" a fixed stadiometer in a clinical setting. However, newer studies have investigated alternative ways of measuring height using portable measuring devices with laser distance metres. The advantage with this type of measure is the ability to potentially perform reliable measure in settings outside clinical controlled settings. Recently, a measuring device which required adjustments of measuring axes by hand was developed, which resulted in a measurement error of 0.35 cm compared with 0.20-0.30 cm in fixed stadiometers. In order to optimise this, it was suggested that future measuring devices using laser distance meters should be fixed in one or more measurement axes. Thus, a novel portable height device, which is fixated in two axes using a laser distance metre has been developed.
Objectives:
Primary objective: To investigate inter- and intra-rater reproducibility of the portable
height device
Secondary objectives:To assess agreement between the portable height device and wall-fixed
digital stadiometer.
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Participants: Approximately 30 adults, 18+ years old men and women in the study is expected
to be enrolled. Participants will be recruited through convenience sampling in order to
maximise recruitment efforts during the time of the study. Data on gender, age, and height
will be collected.
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Ethics: Written informed consent will be obtained from all participants prior to the study.
The local ethics committee will be consulted for approval of the study. Approval will also be
obtained from the Danish Data Protection Agency.
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Measuring devices:
Portable laser measuring device: A laser distance meter (Bosch Zamo, Robert Bosch GmbH,
Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany) will be mounted perpendicularly to the end of a wooden lath
(3x4x50 cm). The other end of the lath will be mounted perpendicular to a T-shaped metal
plate which will fixate the x- and z-axis of the laser measuring device. The portable height
device will measure vertically down in its z-axis from the participant's vertex to the floor
in front of the participant.
Stadiometer (reference standard): a fixed stadiometer will be used as a reference (Harpenden
Stadiometer, Holtain Limited, Crosswell, UK).
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Procedure:
Measurements will be performed at Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark. Two raters
will independently perform height measurements in two separate rooms with each measuring
device (portable height device and fixed stadiometer) on all participants. Each rater will
perform three measures per device. During measurements, participants will be asked to stand
flat on the floor (hard surface) without shoes. Furthermore, participants will be asked to
stand with their heels positioned together and against the wall during both type of
measurements. Each rater will make sure that participants' heads are be positioned in the
Frankfurt plane, and encourage participants to stand with a straight back against the wall.
Stadiometer (reference standard): The measuring device will be pulled down to the skull.
Afterwards, the participant will be asked to take a deep breath and hold it, after which the
measurement will be performed.
Portable laser measuring device: The lath with the laser distance meter will be placed on top
of the participant's vertex and fixated in two axes by holding the T-shaped piece against the
wall. The lath will be rotated until the laser distance meter points vertically, which is
done using a bubble level mounted on the end of the lath. The laser distance meter will be
activated by clicking on the "START" button. Participants are asked to take a deep breath and
hold it, after which the measurement will be locked and recorded. Following each measurement,
the participant will take a step away from the measuring area and afterwards step back again
to replicate the measurement procedure.
Blinding: All 30 participants will be measured using the laser distance meter first by each
rater. When this stage is complete, measurements will be secured and inaccessible, in order
to blind the raters when performing stadiometer measurements afterwards. It is assumed that
each rater will not be able to remember each participants' height when 30 participants are
measured consecutively. After the stadiometer measurements have been performed, data will
also be secured and inaccessible. Afterwards, this entire procedure will be repeated once
more. Measurements will be collected using a data capturing tool Research electronic data
capture (REDCap).
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Statistics:
Participants: Age will be reported in mean with standard deviations, and gender will be
reported in proportions. Both height measures will have 95% confidence intervals reported.
Agreement:Mean of all three measurements per rater per measuring device per participants will
be calculated. The difference between the means will be calculated by subtracting the mean
laser measurement from the mean stadiometer measurement. This will also be performed with
only the mean of the two first measurements, and finally also the first measurement. Thus, it
would be possible to evaluate whether one measurement would have similar agreement with two
or three measurements. Bland Altman plots with limits of agreement (LOA) will be generated
together with standard error of measurements (SEM) and coefficient of variation (c.v) for all
the above-mentioned combinations.
Reliability: Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) with 95% confidence intervals between
measuring devices will be calculated.
Software: Statistics will be performed using Microsoft Excel for Mac version 16.28 (Microsoft
Office, Microsoft Corporation, WA) and IBM SPSS Statistics for MacOS version 25.0 (IBM
Corporation, Armonk, NY).
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Conflicts of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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Dissemination: This study is planned to be published in an English-language journal. The
reporting of the study will follow the current guidelines for reliability and agreement
studies (GRRAS).
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