Validity of Estimated Results from a Wearable Device for the Tests Time Up and Go and Sit to Stand in Young Adults and in People with Chronic Diseases

Kokouvi Geovani Agbohessou; Stephanie Sahuguede; Justine Lacroix; Fadel Hamdan; Emmanuel Conchon; Yannick Dumas; Anne Julien-Vergonjanne; Stephane Mandigout

doi:10.3390/s23125742

Validity of Estimated Results from a Wearable Device for the Tests Time Up and Go and Sit to Stand in Young Adults and in People with Chronic Diseases

Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jun 20;23(12):5742. doi: 10.3390/s23125742.

Authors

Kokouvi Geovani Agbohessou¹, Stephanie Sahuguede², Justine Lacroix¹, Fadel Hamdan², Emmanuel Conchon², Yannick Dumas³, Anne Julien-Vergonjanne², Stephane Mandigout^{1

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Affiliations

¹ HAVAE EA6310 (Handicap, Aging, Autonomy, Environment), University of Limoges, 87042 Limoges, France.
² XLIM Laboratory, UMR CNRS 7252, University of Limoges, 87000 Limoges, France.
³ Développement de Logiciels, UNOVA, 87000 Limoges, France.
⁴ ILFOMER (Institut Limousin de Formation aux Métiers de la Réadaptation), Université de Limoges, 87000 Limoges, France.

Abstract

Background: Health care professionals need a valid tool to assess the physical ability of patients with chronic diseases. We aimed to assess the validity of the results of physical fitness tests estimated by a wrist wearable device in young adults and chronic disease people.

Methods: Participants wore a sensor placed on their wrist and performed two physical fitness tests (sit to stand (STS) and time up and go (TUG)). We checked the concordance of sensor-estimated results using Bland-Altman analysis, root-mean-square error, and intraclass coefficient of correlation (ICC).

Results: In total, 31 young adults (groups A; median age = 25 ± 5 years) and 14 people with chronic diseases (groups B; median age = 70 ± 15 years) were included. Concordance was high for both STS (ICC_A = 0.95, and ICC_B = 0.90), and TUG (ICC_A = 0.75, ICC_B = 0.98). The best estimations were given by the sensor during STS tests in young adults (mean bias = 0.19 ± 2.69; p = 0.12) and chronic disease people (mean bias = -0.14 ± 3.09 s; p = 0.24). The sensor provided the largest estimation errors over 2 s during the TUG test in young adults.

Conclusion: This study showed that the results provided by the sensor are consistent with those of the gold standard during STS and TUG in both healthy youth and people with chronic diseases.

Keywords: accelerometer; chronic disease; gyrometer; physical activity; reliability; wearable sensor.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Chronic Disease
Exercise
Exercise Test / methods
Humans
Middle Aged
Physical Fitness
Reproducibility of Results
Wearable Electronic Devices*
Young Adult

Grants and funding

This work was mainly supported by the University of Limoges and the Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, both of whom are not involved in the analyses. The sponsors were not involved in the design of the study, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, and in writing the manuscript.