Table 2.

Meaningful change estimates for the Mini-BESTest based on patient and physiotherapist ratings using the global rating scale and distribution-based methods (n = 50).

Mini-BESTest component	Global rating of change scale collapsed, mean (SD)			SEM	MDC95	MCID small change*	MCID substantial change*
	About the same	A little better	Much better
Anticipatory patient	0.7 (0.8)	0.4 (0.7)	0.9 (0.9)	0.4	1.0	1	1
Therapist	0.4 (0.7)	0.8 (0.9)	0.7 (0.8)			1	1
Reactive patient	0.7 (1.2)	1.1 (1.6)	1.1 (1.2)	0.7	1.8	1	2
Therapist	0.1 (0.3)	1.2 (1.2)	1.2 (1.6)			1	2
Sensory patient	0.3 (0.7)	0.6 (1.0)	0.6 (0.7)	0.4	1.0	1	1
Therapist	0.1 (0.9)	0.6 (0.8)	0.7 (0.7)			1	1
Dynamic patient	2.1 (1.3)	1.4 (1.9)	2.0 (2.3)	1.0	2.6	2	3
Therapist	0.7 (1.7)	1.5 (1.4)	2.6 (2.3)			2	3
Total score patient	3.8 (2.3)	3.5 (3.8)	4.7 (3.9)	1.1	3.2	4	5
Therapist	1.3 (2.8)	4.2 (2.6)	5.2 (4.1)			4	5

SEM: minimal clinically important difference; MDC: minimal detectable change; MCID: minimal clinically important difference.

Global Rating Change scale collapsed: about the same (a little better/not meaningful and about the same); a little better/meaningful and much better.

^*The minimal clinically important difference value for small change was selected as the larger of either the anchor-based estimate for small change (about the same and a little better) or the distribution-based standard error of measurement, rounded to the nearest whole number. The minimal clinically important difference value for substantial change was selected as the larger of either the anchor-based estimate for substantial change (much better) or the distribution-based MDC₉₅, rounded to the nearest whole number.