Table 3.
Studies characteristics (neurological condition, citation, measured aspects, participants, reliability elements and study quality percentage).
| Citations | Instrument name | Participant number | ResultReliability elements | Study quality(average QATSDD percentage) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinal cord injury | ||||
| [5] | Motor Assessment Scale (MAS) item 3 ‘balanced sitting’ | N=50 | Inter-rater reliability for MAS (kw¼0.83–0.91) | 85.74% |
| Sitting balance score SBS | Inter-rater reliability for SBS (kw¼0.69–0.96) | |||
| [6] | Brazilian version in Portuguese of the Thoracic-Lumbar Control Scale | N=22 | - Intra-examiner reliability 0.96 | 88.09% |
| - Inter-examiner reliability (0.961 and 0.986) | ||||
| - High value of internal consistency (0.934) | ||||
| [7] | clinical trunk control test | N=177 | - Inter-observer reliability a pondered Kappa of 0.987 | 89.58% |
| - Alpha coefficient had a value of 0.979. | ||||
| [8] | Hand-Held Dynamometry in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury | N=29 | - Intrarater reliability was good to excellent (intraclass correlation coefficients, 0.80–0.98 [unsupported]; 0.79–0.99 [supported]) for all raters in the four directions of force application. | 83.33% |
| - Interrater reliability was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficients, 0.97–0.99 [unsupported]; 0.96–0.98 [supported]) for all directions | ||||
| [9] | Dynamic sitting balance tests: Limits of stability | N=9 | - Moderate to excellent test–retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.673 to 0.990) | 71.42% |
| Dynamic sitting balance tests: sequential weight shifting | - Moderate to excellent reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from0.688 to 0.952) | 79.19% | ||
| [10] | Sitting balance measure | N=30 | - Cronbach’s α = 0.96 | 79.19% |
| Stroke | ||||
| [11] | The Italian version of the Trunk Impairment Scale | N=41 | - Cronbach’s α = 0.88 | 59.52% |
| - Internal consistency ranged from 0.79 to 0.88. ICC values ranged from 0.725 to 0.933 for inter-rater reliability, with the SEM ranging from 0.52 to 1.11, and from 0.770 to 0.911 for intra-rater reliability | ||||
| - Kappa values ranged from moderate to almost perfect | ||||
| [12] | Trunk Impairment Scale Norwegian version modified TIS-NV | N=50 | Cronbach’s α = 0.85 | 88.09% |
| [13] | Function In SittingTest | N=31 | - The person separation index was 0.978 | 83.33% |
| - Coefficient alpha was 0.98, indicating high internal consistency | ||||
| Multiple sclerosis | ||||
| [14] | Function in sitting test | N=20 | Cronbach’s α = 0.91 | 80.95% |