Inter-rater Reliability of Wisconsin Gait Scale and Gait Abnormality Rating Scale in Hemiplegic Patients after Stroke
HU Nan
LU Xi
LI Jun
DENG Si-yu
BI Sheng
Abstract：Objective To study the inter-rater reliability of Wisconsin Gait Scale (WGS) and Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS) in patients with stroke. Methods 20 hemiplegic patients were required to walk on their comfortable speed and videotaped from frontal, back-ward and lateral. The video recordings were scored with WGS and GARS by 2 experienced physical therapists. Intraclass correlation coeffi-cient (ICC) was calculated for the scores in each category and the total score. Results ICC for the WGS were 0.372~1, and were 0~0.875 for the GARS. Conclusion WGS is more appropriater to assess the gait of hemiplegic stroke patients than GARS.
Keywords：strokegaitWisconison Gait ScaleGait Abnormality Rating Scaleinter-rater reliability
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 549-551 )