Instructions influence response to theChinese version of the Movement‐Specific Reinvestment Scale in community‐dwelling older adults

Abstract

Both the MSRS-C (general) and MSRS-C (walking) with a six-point or a four-point response format showed good discrimination of older fallers from non-fallers. Older adults might respond to the MSRS-C with respect to the most challenging movements (e.g. fall-related movements) in their daily living. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2016; 16: 1305-1311.

Do attentional focus instructions affect real-time reinvestment during level-ground walking in older adults?

“…They discovered that some older adults were uncertain about the specific movement they should relate to when responding to the MSRS-C that was designed to relate to general movements. Although recent evidence has shown that older adults responded to the MSRS-C similarly between asking about general movements and walking movement (Wong et al 2016), it still may not be surprising to observe that some older adults are reinvesting their cognitive effort in one specific movement but not in the other, such as in walking downhill but not in level-ground walking. This may be attributable to the different causes of reinvestment, including personal experience and specific movement mechanisms related to falls, which eventually lead to a potential discrepancy in the MSRS-C score if different individual refer to different movements (Wong et al 2015).…”

“…Before any experimental walking trials, demographics and baseline characteristics were obtained from the participants (Table 1). They were asked to complete the Chinese version of the Movement Specific Reinvestment Scale (MSRS-C - Masters et al 2005;Wong et al 2008Wong et al , 2015Wong et al , 2016 to evaluate the trait propensity for reinvestment. A higher total score represents a higher trait propensity for reinvestment.…”

Examining conscious motor processing and the effect of single-task, dual-task and analogy training on walking during rehabilitation by older adults at risk of falling in Hong Kong: Design and methodology of a randomized controlled trial

“…An effect size of 0.31 was calculated from the pilot study for the primary outcome of conscious motor processing (reinvestment) propensity, as measured by the MSRS-C [ 22 , 32 , 33 ], which suggests that a sample size of n = 28 participants per group would provide sufficient power for the study to detect groups’ differences. To be conservative, the study plans to recruit n = 35 participants per group given that the drop-out rate might be around 20 to 30% for a similar type of randomized controlled trial.…”

Investigating Changes in Real-time Conscious Postural Processing by Older Adults during Different Stance Positions Using Electroencephalography Coherence

“…Neither Chu and Wong (2018) nor Chow et al (2019) found a statistically significant relationship between MSRS score and T3-Fz coherence. MSRS is a general psychometric trait measure and, therefore, might not specifically reflect the extent to which conscious postural processing occurs during standing (Uiga et al, 2018;Wong, Abernethy, & Masters, 2016). In addition, both studies required participants to stand on a foam surface, which lacks ecological validity, given that older adults are unlikely to ever need to maintain their posture on such a surface.…”