Benchmarking the iOS Balance Application Against the Berg Balance Test

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to benchmark the performance of an iOS application against the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), which is the most commonly used assessment tool by clinicians for measuring balance across the continuum from acute care to community-based care. An iPhone will be tied around the waist of the participant and concurrent measurements will be taken for five of the fourteen stances which comprise the BBS.

Clinical Trial Description

'Project Balance' aims to make balance an actionable component of an individuals health, allowing a long term intervention via a monitoring and training of balance health much before a fall happens. Towards this end, we have designed an iOS application and a belt. The phone is kept stable against the lower back of the participant using the belt. The application turns on the accelerometer in the phone to sample acceleration along x (media lateral) and z (anterior posterior) axis. These displacements from the mean are used to calculate the Root Mean Square of a person which acts a proxy score for Postural Sway. (Postural sway is defined as the phenomenon of constant displacement and correction of the position of the center of gravity within the base of support)

Studies in the past have compared the use of accelerometers to the use of the clinical measured of Timed Up (TUG) test and Berg Balance Scale (BBS) in the assessment of postural stability and indicated that there is a high correlation between BBS, TUG and Accelerometry. Accelerometry has also found to be able to distinguish between sway responses to differing balancing conditions and between fallers and non-fallers.

We aim to conduct a benchmarking study for our iOS application against the BBS. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02705690
Study type	Interventional
Source	Stannah Stairlifts
Contact	Shruti Grover, MSc
Phone	07767118256
Email	shruti.grover@stannah.co.uk
Status	Not yet recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	May 2016
Completion date	August 2016

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