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Simultaneous bilateral hand strength testing in a client population, part I: diagnostic, observational and subjective complaint correlates to consistency of effort.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20978338     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVES: 1. To determine if scores on pain questionnaires and overt behaviors during a functional capacity evaluation (FCE) were related to variability between repeated measures during a hand strength assessment. 2. To determine if failure of statistically-based validity criteria, as proposed by Schapmire, St. James and Townsend et al. [26] is likely to be due to pain.
PARTICIPANTS: 200 consecutive clients presenting for an FCE.
METHODS: Subjects filled out pain questionnaires, were observed for various behaviors and were administered the distraction-based hand strength assessment.
RESULTS: Clients failing two or more of the statistically-based validity criteria had higher scores on most pain questionnaires, presented with a higher frequency of various pain behaviors (p < 0.05 and < 0.001, respectively), and had a lower rate of relevant surgeries (p < 0.001). There was no statistically significant difference in the number of failed validity criteria between this group of clients and for normal subjects feigning weakness in a controlled study (p> 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: Pain does not reasonably explain the failure of the statistically-based validity criteria. The protocol is appropriate for use in a client population.
Authors:
Darrell W Schapmire; James D St James; Larry Feeler; Joe Kleinkort
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Work (Reading, Mass.)     Volume:  37     ISSN:  1875-9270     ISO Abbreviation:  Work     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-10-27     Completed Date:  2011-02-04     Revised Date:  2011-03-07    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9204382     Medline TA:  Work     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  309-20     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
X-RTS Software Products, Inc., Hopedale, IL 61747, USA. ds@xrts.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Behavior
Hand Strength*
Humans
Pain / complications,  psychology*
Pain Measurement / methods,  psychology*
Physical Exertion
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Work Capacity Evaluation*
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Comment In:
Work. 2011;38(2):193-5; author reply 197-9   [PMID:  21297289 ]

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