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Table I X - 1 . Overview of the Berg Balance Scale

Population

Equipment

Time

Reliability

Validity

Elderly

Ruler

1 0 - 2 0 mins

Inter-rater reli-

Concurrent

patients

Stopwatch

required

ability: ICC

validity:

who have

Chair

to com-

= 0.98

Tinetti, r =

sustained

Step stool

plete test

rs = 0.88

0.91

acute

Flat surface

Intrarater

Get up and

cerebro-

reliability:

go,r =

vascular

ICC = 0.98

- 0 . 7 6

accident

Internal

Predictive

and/or are

consistency:

validity: <45

in a reha-

Cronbach's

score

bilitation

alpha = 0.96

predicts falls

setting

ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient; r = correlation coefficient; rs = Spearman's rank

correlation coefficient.

Sources: Data from S Whitney, J Poole, S Cass. A review of balance instruments for older

adults. Am J Occup Ther 1 9 9 8 ; 5 2 ( 8 ) : 6 6 6 - 6 7 1 ; KO Berg, SL Wood-Dauphinee, JI Wil-

liams, B Maki. Measuring balance in the elderly: validation of an instrument. Can J Public

Health 1 9 9 2 ; 8 3 : S 7 - S 1 1 ; L Thorbahn, R Newton. Use of the Berg Balance Test to predict

falls in elderly persons. Phys Ther 1 9 9 6 ; 7 6 ( 6 ) : 5 7 6 - 5 8 3 ; and K Berg, S Wood-Dauphinee,

JI Williams, D Gayton. Measuring balance in the elderly: preliminary development of an

instrument. Physiotherapy Can 1 9 8 9 ; 4 1 : 3 0 4 .