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Reliability of newly developed tests of pre- planned and nonplanned agility for older persons: a pilot study

Studies in the field of agility have identified two different forms of agility, pre-planned-agility (PPA) and non- planned-agility (NPA). PURPOSE: The aim of this research was to examine the reliability of newly constructed tests of reactive and pre- planned agility for elderly persons. METHODS: Ten healthy volunteers (6 women and 4 men ; age 61.10 ± 4.4 years ; body height 166.90 ± 7.82 cm ; body weight 77.63 ± 12.19 kg) participated in this pilot study throughout testretest study design. Respondents were tested on newly constructed tests of reactive and pre-planned agility twice over two days. Tests involved several stop-and-go movement patterns with (for NPA), or without (for PPA) reaction to visual stimuli. RESULTS: The reliability of the PPA test was high (Intraclass correlation: 0.83 ; Coefficient of variation: 3%), while the reliability of NPA test was somewhat lower but still acceptable (Intraclass correlation: 0.52 ; Coefficient of variation ; 6%). Pearson's correlation between PPA and NPA was numerically low (r = 0.51, p = 0.19) indicating that reactive- and pre-plannedagility should be observed as independent qualities sharing less than 25% of the common variance. CONCLUSION: The results of this pilot study indicated appropriate reliability of newly developed PPA and NPA tests

reliability ; pre-planned ; non-planned ; agility ; test

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