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Score a 10-metre walk test (10mWT)

Source: R/com-performance-tests.R
score10MWT.Rd

Computes comfortable/fast gait speed and its ambulation category, with an optional normative z-score. Accepts a gait speed directly, a walk time, or a PhysioMoCap signal-derived result (walk_test_report from PhysioMoCap::instrumented10mWT or gait_parameters from PhysioMoCap::calculateGaitParameters).

Usage

score10MWT(
  x = NULL,
  time_s = NULL,
  distance = 10,
  pace = c("comfortable", "fast"),
  ref = NULL,
  covariates = list()
)

Arguments

x

A gait speed (m/s), a walk_test_report, or a gait_parameters; or NULL to use time_s.

time_s

Walk time in seconds (manual path; speed = distance/time).

distance

Walk distance in metres (default 10).

pace

"comfortable" (default) or "fast".

ref

Optional GovernedNormativeReference for the normative z-score.

covariates

Covariates (e.g. list(age, sex)) for ref.

Value

A "performance_test_score" with gait_speed, ambulation and (if ref) zscore.

References

Perry et al. (1995); Fritz & Lusardi (2009); Perera et al. (2006).

See also

score6MWT(), scoreTUG()

Examples

score10MWT(time_s = 8)         # 10 m / 8 s = 1.25 m/s -> community ambulator
#> <performance_test_score> 10mWT
#>   gait_speed         1.25
#>   pace               comfortable
#>   ambulation         community