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. 2022 Jul 15;12:12081. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15874-4

Table 1.

Reliability and clinical validity of pre-specified Roche PD Mobile Application v2 active test and passive monitoring sensor features.

Digital test Sensor feature MDS-UPDRS item Test–retest reliability Spearman’s correlation coefficient MDS-UPDRS item score 0 versus 1 Hoehn and Yahr Stage I versus II
ICC (95% CI) rs P value N U stat P value N 0/N 1 Percent difference on group medians U stat P value N 1/N 2 Percent difference on group medians Feature differences in expected direction
Draw A Shape Spiral celerity (L) 3.5 Hand movement (L) 0.91 (0.88–0.93) − 0.15 0.0092 300 7061 0.0043 184/95 − 14.06 6681 0.0047 74/226 − 9.5 Yes
Spiral celerity (M) 3.5 Hand movement (M) 0.92 (0.89–0.94) − 0.12 0.0334 300 3091 0.0981 49/144 − 14.29 6463 0.0017 74/226 − 15.2 Yes
Dexterity Tapping variability (L) 3.4 Finger tapping (L) 0.84 (0.79–0.88) 0.32  < 0.0001 300 6786 0.0006 152/116 27.33 6444 0.0015 74/226 27.16 Yes
Tapping variability (M) 3.4 Finger tapping (M) 0.88 (0.84–0.91) 0.37  < 0.0001 300 1261 0.0006 30/135 40.64 6691 0.005 74/226 17.95 Yes
Hand Turning Median Hand Turning speed (L) 3.6 Pronation-supination (L) 0.92 (0.89–0.94) − 0.18 0.0015 300 7930 0.0361 192/95 − 7.85 7268 0.0458 74/226 − 7.18 Yes
Median Hand Turning speed (M) 3.6 Pronation-supination (M) 0.95 (0.93–0.97) − 0.46  < 0.0001 300 1912 0.0008 43/131 − 12.37 7216 0.0385 74/226 − 9.33 Yes
Speech MFCC2 variability 3.1 Speech 0.77 (0.69–0.83) − 0.29  < 0.0001 295 5692  < 0.0001 126/138 − 13.68 6395 0.0412 71/209 − 4.47 Yes
Phonation Voice jitter 3.1 Speech 0.88 (0.85–0.91) 0.18 0.0017 297 7381 0.0001 135/146 21.65 7248 0.073 73/224 12.87 Yes
Postural Tremor Log median squared energy (L) 3.15 Postural tremor (L) 0.83 (0.77–0.87) 0.23  < 0.0001 300 3240 0.0002 259/39 8.26 7111 0.0343 73/227 1.2 Yes
Log median squared energy (M) 3.1 Postural tremor (M) 0.92 (0.90–0.94) 0.5  < 0.0001 300 4779  < 0.0001 150/116 12.45 8108 0.3918 73/227 1.28 Yes
Rest Tremor Log median squared energy (L) 3.17 Rest tremor amplitude (L) 0.91 (0.88–0.93) 0.34  < 0.0001 300 967  < 0.0001 274/19 23.73 6614 0.0048 73/227 6.12 Yes
Log median squared energy (M) 3.17 Rest tremor amplitude (M) 0.94 (0.91–0.95) 0.71  < 0.0001 300 1565  < 0.0001 124/71 19.27 7896 0.2731 73/227 3.59 Yes
Balance Log sway jerk 3.12 Postural stability 0.82 (0.76–0.87) 0.14 0.0138 299 890 0.0071 287/11 10.6 7988 0.3870 72/227 1.29 Yes
U-turn Median turn sp eed 3.14 Body bradykinesia 0.91 (0.88–0.93) − 0.22 0.0001 299 3113 0.0539 44/168 − 5.39 6322 0.0019 72/227 − 7.83 Yes
eSDMT Number of correct responses 1.1 Cognitive impairment 0.75 (0.66–0.81) − 0.18 0.0014 303 3787.5 0.0012 248/43 − 10 6538 0.0008 76/227 − 7.14 Yes
Passive monitoring of gait Median turn speed 3.14 Body bradykinesia 0.82 (0.77–0.89) − 0.22 0.0001 285 3130 0.154 43/162 − 3.3 6270 0.0138 71/214 − 4.65 Yes
Passive monitoring of non-gait arm movements Median arm movement power (non-gait) 3.6 Pronation-supination, left hand 0.85 (0.80–0.89) − 0.43  < 0.0001 269 3108  < 0.0001 106/89 − 35.73 5221 0.0242 60/209 − 30.64 Yes

“M” = most affected side; “L” = least affected side.

CI confidence interval, eSDMT electronic Symbol Digit Modalities Test, ICC intraclass correlation coefficient, L less affected side, M more affected side, MDS-UPDRS Movement Disorder Society—Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, MFCC2 Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient 2.