Responsiveness and Minimal Clinically Important Difference of the Five Times Sit-to-Stand Test in Patients with Stroke

This study aimed to analyze the responsiveness of 5STS test among stroke patients and estimate MCIDs (minimal clinically important differences) for different severity levels community ambulation stages recovery. The comparator instruments (gait speed Functional Ambulatory Category (FAC)) were evaluated at baseline. These measures repeated 4 (Stage 1) 8 weeks 2), together with Global Rating Change (GROC). calculated two anchor-based methods using GROC as external criterion. Responsiveness change was estimated analyzing correlation changes in their capacity discriminate improvement. For test, while limited ambulators similar (around 3 s), those household decreased from 1.9 s 0.72 s. Spearman’s rho coefficients showed an acceptable between both FAC gait Our revealed that is responsive functional degree stage recovery influence MCID values 5STS.