Psychometrics and Stroke Rehabilitation

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Psychometric comparison of the shortened Fugl-Meyer Assessment and the streamlined

Wolf Motor Function Test in stroke rehabilitation

Tiffany Szu-Ting Fu, Ching-yi Wu, Keh-chung Lin, Ching-ju Hsieh, Jung-sen Liu, Tien-ni Wang and Pei

Ou-yang

Clin Rehabil 2012 26: 1043 originally published online 16 December 2011

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CRE261110.1177/0269215511431474

CLINICAL

REHABILITATION

Psychometric comparison

of the shortened Fugl-Meyer

Assessment and the streamlined

Wolf Motor Function Test in

stroke rehabilitation

Clinical Rehabilitation

26(11) 1043–1047

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DOI: 10.1177/0269215511431474

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Tiffany Szu-Ting Fu1, Ching-yi Wu2, Keh-chung Lin1,3,

Ching-ju Hsieh4, Jung-sen Liu5,Tien-ni Wang1,3 and

Pei Ou-yang2

Abstract

Objective: We aimed to compare the responsiveness, concurrent and predictive validity of the shortened

Fugl-Meyer Assessment (S-FMA) and the streamlined Wolf Motor Function Test (S-WMFT) in persons

with subacute stroke.

Design: Test–retest design.

Setting: Departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation at three hospitals.

Participants: Participants with first-time stroke (N = 51; 38 men, 13 women; mean age ± SD, 55.1...