Reliability and Validity of the Tinetti Mobility Test for Individuals With Parkinson Disease

Abstract

The TMT is a reliable and valid tool for assessing the mobility status of and fall risk for individuals with PD.

Correlation of the composite equilibrium score of computerized dynamic posturography and clinical balance tests

“…25 In fall-risk assessment, the sensitivity of POMA is also higher than that of DGI and TUG for individuals with Parkinson disease. 9 These results are compatible with our study, which shows highest significance of statistical correlation between the CS and total score of POMA grouped by the cutoff value 19. The CS of SOT reflects the overall coordinating ability of visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems of human body, and our study results suggested that CS is a fall predicting factor.…”

“…The Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA), 8 which comprises of the balance and the gait section, provides a more comprehensive approach to one's balance function. Its validity and reliability has been established to assess the falling risks in several conditions, 9,10 and the sensitivity as a predictor of fall risk is much higher than that of the functional reach test, the TUG, the DGI and the Berg Balance Scale. 9 The TUG is less time-consuming and is a test frequently used for fall risk evaluation.…”

“…Its validity and reliability has been established to assess the falling risks in several conditions, 9,10 and the sensitivity as a predictor of fall risk is much higher than that of the functional reach test, the TUG, the DGI and the Berg Balance Scale. 9 The TUG is less time-consuming and is a test frequently used for fall risk evaluation. Some studies confirmed the value of the TUG to predict falls, 11,12 and some studies held different views.…”

Determination of an adequate screening tool for identification of vulnerable elderly head and neck cancer patients treated with radio(chemo)therapy

“…The scales used in our study were largely based on the paper of Rodin and Mohile, 40 though we opted for the Tinetti gait and balance test at a cut-off score of ≤ 24 instead of the Timed Up and Go as it is also well established as a means of measuring mobility in many research and clinical settings and was commonly used in our geriatric departments at that time. [41][42][43][44] For the CIRS-G, consistent with the ONCODAGE project and a recently published study by Lazarovici et al, we thought the severity of co-morbidities to be more important than the number of co-morbidities, since an accumulation of co-morbidities was not found to be predictive of tolerance to chemotherapy. 9,45 Secondly, the clinical relevance of the screening tools could not be evaluated to date, since we did not report any toxicity outcomes.…”

Accelerometry-based gait analysis, an additional objective approach to screen subjects at risk for falling

“…However only walking speed and step length, which are highly correlated (r > 0.9, p < 0.01), were both strongly associated with the Tinetti scale (r > 0.7, p < 0.01). A faster walking speed was related to higher Tinetti scores, which corresponds to previous studies relating a slow walking speed with an increased fall risk [2,4,29]. Moreover walking speed and step length were the most powerful AGA-parameters to classify elderly according to the Tinetti scale (resp.…”