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The study aim was to examine the responsiveness of the Berg Balance
Scale (BBS) and that of its short form (SFBBS) at both the individual person
level and the group level. DESIGN: A repeated-measurements design. SETTING:
Hospital and home setting. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with stroke. RESULTS: Totals of
226, 202, and 168 patients with stroke were assessed with the BBS at 14, 30, and
90 days after stroke, respectively. The SFBBS data were extracted from the
patients' responses on the BBS. At the group level, the BBS and the SFBBS had
sufficient and similar responsiveness. For the Rasch scores, the effect sizes of
the three change scores for the BBS and the SFBBS, respectively, had similar
ranges between 0.38 and 0.88 and between 0.39 and 0.85, respectively. The
standardized response means of the three change scores for the BBS and the SFBBS
ranged from 0.74 to 1.33 and from 0.72 to 1.13, respectively. At the individual
person level, the BBS detected significant balance improvement in about twice as
many patients as the SFBBS detected. CONCLUSION: The responsiveness of the BBS at
the individual person level was better than that of the SFBBS in patients with
stroke. The BBS is recommended as an outcome measure to better detect changes in
individual patients.
CI - (c) The Author(s) 2014.

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