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. 2015 Oct 22;15:6. doi: 10.1186/s12901-015-0019-8

Table 3.

Reproduciblity and measurement error: ICC, SEM and SDC for patients with vestibular disorders (n = 35)

Gait speed (m/s) Cadence (steps/min.) Step length (cm)
Gait tasks with; ICC (CI) SEM SDC ICC (CI) SEM SDC ICC (CI) SEM SDC
Self-selected walking speed 0.94 0.05 0.15 0.87 3.5 10.0 0.95b 2.2b 6.1b
(0.89/0.97) (0.76/0.94) (0.91/0.98)
Horizontal head turns 0.93 0.07 0.20 0.70 9.0 24.9 0.93 2.5 7.0
(0.86/0.96) (0.49/0.84) (0.86/0.96)
Vertical head turns 0.96 0.06 0.16 0.85 6.2 17.1 0.96 2.3 6.4
(0.92/0.98) (0.72/0.93) (0.93/0.98)
Closed eyes 0.87 0.08 0.23 0.83 6.3 17.3 0.92 3.4 9.4
(0.78/0.94) (0.70/0.92) (0.85/0.96)
Ambulating backwards 0.95 0.09 0.26 0.94 3.4 9.5 0.95 2.5 6.9
(0.90/0.98) (0.88/0.97) (0.91/0.98)
Dual taska 0.89 0.05 0.14 0.89a 5.6 15.5 0.87 3.4 9.6
(0.79/0.95) (0.79/0.94) (0.75/0.93)

aDual tasking tests were performed with 34 patients; bStep length during self-selected walking speed was performed in 32 patients. Three measures were invalid and could not be repeated. The dual-tasking paradigm was performed with a) self-selected walking speed and b) dual-tasking (counting backwards from 100 in steps of 7 during self-selected walking speed