A Pilot Study to Validate a Wearable Inertial Sensor for Gait Assessment in Older Adults with Falls
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2021-06-24
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The high prevalence of falls and the enormous impact they have on the elderly population is a cause for concern. We aimed to develop a walking-monitor gait pattern (G-STRIDE) for older adults based on a 6-axis inertial measurement (IMU) with the application of pedestrian dead reckoning algorithms and tested its structural and clinical validity. A cross-sectional case-control study was conducted with 21 participants (11 fallers and 10 non-fallers). We measured gait using an IMU attached to the foot while participants walked around different grounds (indoor flooring, outdoor floor, asphalt, etc.). The G-STRIDE consisted of a portable inertial device that monitored the gait pattern and a mobile app for telematic clinical analysis. G-STRIDE made it possible to measure gait parameters under normal living conditions when walking without assessing the patient in the outpatient clinic. Moreover, we verified concurrent validity with convectional outcome measures using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and analyzed the differences between participants. G-STRIDE showed high estimation accuracy for the walking speed of the elderly and good concurrent validity compared to conventional measures (ICC = 0.69; p < 0.000). In conclusion, the developed inertial-based G-STRIDE can accurately classify older people with risk to fall with a significance as high as using traditional but more subjective clinical methods (gait speed, Timed Up and Go Test).
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JCR (2021): SCIE 19/64 T1 Q2 Factor de impacto: 3.847
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García-Villamil, G.; Neira-Álvarez, M.; Huertas-Hoyas, E.; Ramón-Jiménez, A.; Rodríguez-Sánchez, C. A Pilot Study to Validate a Wearable Inertial Sensor for Gait Assessment in Older Adults with Falls. Sensors 2021, 21, 4334. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21134334
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