@article{quteprints58525,
           month = {March},
           pages = {99--105},
            year = {2013},
          volume = {33},
          number = {2},
       publisher = {Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins, Inc.},
          author = {R. Nicole Bellet and Rebecca L Francis and Justin S Jacob and Karen M Healy and Harold John Gregory Bartlett and Lewis Adams and Normal R Morris},
         journal = {Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation \& Prevention},
           title = {Timed Up and Go Tests in cardiac rehabilitation : reliability and comparison with the 6-minute walk test},
             doi = {10.1097/HCR.0b013e3182773fae},
        keywords = {cardiac, exercise therapy, outcome assessment, rehabilitation},
             url = {https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58525/},
        abstract = {PURPOSE: To test the reliability of Timed Up and Go Tests (TUGTs) in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and compare TUGTs to the 6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) for outcome measurement.

METHODS: Sixty-one of 154 consecutive community-based CR patients were prospectively recruited. Subjects undertook repeated TUGTs and 6MWTs at the start of CR (start-CR), postdischarge from CR (post-CR), and 6 months postdischarge from CR (6 months post-CR). The main outcome measurements were TUGT time (TUGTT) and 6MWT distance (6MWD).

RESULTS: Mean (SD) TUGTT1 and TUGTT2 at the 3 assessments were 6.29 (1.30) and 5.94 (1.20); 5.81 (1.22) and 5.53 (1.09); and 5.39 (1.60) and 5.01 (1.28) seconds, respectively. A reduction in TUGTT occurred between each outcome point (P {$\leq$} .002). Repeated TUGTTs were strongly correlated at each assessment, intraclass correlation (95\% CI) = 0.85 (0.76{--}0.91), 0.84 (0.73{--}0.91), and 0.90 (0.83{--}0.94), despite a reduction between TUGTT1 and TUGTT2 of 5\%, 5\%, and 7\%, respectively (P {$\leq$} .006). Relative decreases in TUGTT1 (TUGTT2) occurred from start-CR to post-CR and from start-CR to 6 months post-CR of ?7.5\% (?6.9\%) and ?14.2\% (?15.5\%), respectively, while relative increases in 6MWD1 (6MWD2) occurred, 5.1\% (7.2\%) and 8.4\% (10.2\%), respectively (P {\ensuremath{<}} .001 in all cases). Pearson correlation coefficients for 6MWD1 to TUGTT1 and TUGTT2 across all times were ?0.60 and ?0.68 (P {\ensuremath{<}} .001) and the intraclass correlations (95\% CI) for the speeds derived from averaged 6MWDs and TUGTTs were 0.65 (0.54, 0.73) (P {\ensuremath{<}} .001).

CONCLUSIONS: Similar relative changes occurred for the TUGT and the 6MWT in CR. A significant correlation between the TUGTT and 6MWD was demonstrated, and we suggest that the TUGT may provide a related or a supplementary measurement of functional capacity in CR.}
}