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Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Objective: The North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA) is a validated 17-item functional rating scale and widely used to assess motor function in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and subsequent Government ‘lockdown’ resulted in no face-to-face clinic visits hence...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35626905 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9050728 |
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author | Emery, Nicholas Strachan, Kate Kulshrestha, Richa Kuiper, Jan Herman Willis, Tracey |
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description | Objective: The North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA) is a validated 17-item functional rating scale and widely used to assess motor function in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and subsequent Government ‘lockdown’ resulted in no face-to-face clinic visits hence the motor abilities were not monitored. The aim was to investigate whether the NSAA was feasible and reliable by video assessment. Method: Ten ambulant DMD boys were selected from the electronic hospital records. Two physiotherapists scored the boys’ NSAA independently and the intraclass correlation coefficient was used to assess agreement. The video scores were compared to two previous NSAA in-clinic scores. Results: Mean scores (SD) for clinic visit one were 22.6 (4.19) and clinic visit two 21.8 (5.3). The two physiotherapists video mean scores were 20.6 (5.66) for physiotherapist 1 and 20.6 (6.53) for physiotherapist 2. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.98 (95% CI 0.93–1.00) for the total NSAA and 1.00 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.00) for the rise time. The mean decline in score from clinic visit one (−12 months) to video assessment was 2.0 (2.8SD). Conclusion: The results from the study suggest that video NSAA is partially feasible and reliable. |
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spelling | pubmed-91393002022-05-28 Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Emery, Nicholas Strachan, Kate Kulshrestha, Richa Kuiper, Jan Herman Willis, Tracey Children (Basel) Article Objective: The North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA) is a validated 17-item functional rating scale and widely used to assess motor function in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and subsequent Government ‘lockdown’ resulted in no face-to-face clinic visits hence the motor abilities were not monitored. The aim was to investigate whether the NSAA was feasible and reliable by video assessment. Method: Ten ambulant DMD boys were selected from the electronic hospital records. Two physiotherapists scored the boys’ NSAA independently and the intraclass correlation coefficient was used to assess agreement. The video scores were compared to two previous NSAA in-clinic scores. Results: Mean scores (SD) for clinic visit one were 22.6 (4.19) and clinic visit two 21.8 (5.3). The two physiotherapists video mean scores were 20.6 (5.66) for physiotherapist 1 and 20.6 (6.53) for physiotherapist 2. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.98 (95% CI 0.93–1.00) for the total NSAA and 1.00 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.00) for the rise time. The mean decline in score from clinic visit one (−12 months) to video assessment was 2.0 (2.8SD). Conclusion: The results from the study suggest that video NSAA is partially feasible and reliable. MDPI 2022-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9139300/ /pubmed/35626905 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9050728 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Emery, Nicholas Strachan, Kate Kulshrestha, Richa Kuiper, Jan Herman Willis, Tracey Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title | Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title_full | Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title_fullStr | Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title_short | Evaluating the Feasibility and Reliability of Remotely Delivering and Scoring the North Star Ambulatory Assessment in Ambulant Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy |
title_sort | evaluating the feasibility and reliability of remotely delivering and scoring the north star ambulatory assessment in ambulant patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35626905 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9050728 |
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