Reproducibility and Validity of the 6-Minute Stationary Walk Test Associated With Virtual Reality in Subjects With COPD

• Published in: Respiratory care Vol. 64; no. 4; p. 425
• Main Authors: Frade, Maria Cm, Dos Reis, Ivanize Mm, Basso-Vanelli, Renata P, Brandão, Alexandre F, Jamami, Mauricio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Exercise Tolerance; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Oxygen Consumption; Physical Functional Performance; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - metabolism; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Reproducibility of Results; Virtual Reality; Walk Test - methods; virtual reality; criterion validity; exercise test; reproducibility; reliability; COPD

The importance of evaluating the functional capacity of patients with COPD is well known, and there is a wide range of tests described in the literature. The 6-min stationary walk test associated with virtual reality (STVR-6) was created in light of the current limitations of evaluation tests. It do...