Measurement properties of the six-minute pegboard and ring test (6PBRT) in healthy adolescents

Hércules Ribeiro Leite; Ilkilene Pinheiro Queiroz; Júlia Gonçalves Santos; Fernanda Lorena Barroso de Souza; Pedro Henrique Scheidt Figueiredo; Fernanda de Cordoba Lanza; Franciele Ângelo de Deus; Camila Danielle Cunha Neves; Bruno Alvarenga Soares; Sabrina Pinheiro Tsopanoglou; Vanessa Pereira Lima

doi:10.1016/j.jbmt.2021.08.002

Measurement properties of the six-minute pegboard and ring test (6PBRT) in healthy adolescents

J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2021 Oct:28:56-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2021.08.002. Epub 2021 Aug 8.

Affiliations

¹ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Desempenho Funcional, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Campus JK, Alto da Jacuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Reabilitação, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional (EEFFTO), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Av. Antônio Carlos, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
² Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Desempenho Funcional, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Campus JK, Alto da Jacuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
³ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Reabilitação, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional (EEFFTO), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Av. Antônio Carlos, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Curso de Fisioterapia. Faculdade Sete Lagoas (FACSETE), Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁵ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Desempenho Funcional, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Campus JK, Alto da Jacuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address: vanessa.lima@ufvjm.edu.br.

PMID: 34776196
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2021.08.002

Abstract

Objectives: To investigate the cardiorespiratory responses to the 6-min pegboard and ring test (6PBRT) and to assess its reproducibility in healthy adolescents.

Methods: It was a cross-sectional study with 52 healthy adolescents (11-18 years old of both genders). The 6PBRT was performed twice on two different days by the same examiner. Intra-rater reliability, percentage of the minimal difference chance (MDC%) and agreement of the number of moving rings were analyzed. Also, cardiopulmonary parameters were collected before and after tests.

Results: Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for the number of rings moved was 0.87 (95%CI 0.69-0.93). The mean number of moved rings during the second test was higher. The MDC% with a 95 % confidence interval was greater than acceptable values. Bland-Altman analysis did not show agreement between measurements (bias = 30.1); with upper and lower limits of agreement of -67.8 to 127.9, respectively. There was a significant increase in dyspnea, fatigue and HR values at the end of the tests (p < 0.0001). In both tests, participants reached HR equivalent to 48 % of the maximum predicted.

Conclusion: Together, the results suggest that the 6PBRT is not a reliable measure for a population of healthy adolescents, which indicates the necessity to perform more than one test. The 6PBRT is suggested to be a submaximal test for this population.

Keywords: Adolescent; Field test; Reproducibility; Six-minute pegboard and ring test; Upper limb.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dyspnea*
Fatigue*
Female
Humans
Male
Reproducibility of Results