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- Title
Applicability of Brazilian reference equations for the 6-minute walk test in patients with lung cancer.
- Authors
Lino de Vasconcelos, Nara Naone; da Silva Martins, Neilane; Barros Pereira, Eanes Delgado; Araújo Almeida, Amanda Souza; Mesquita, Rafael
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to verify the impact of using different Brazilian reference equations for the distance covered in the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) in the evaluation of functional exercise capacity in patients with lung cancer (LC). This cross-sectional study included 48 patients with LC (average age of 60±12 years-old). The participants underwent an assessment of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and their functional exercise capacity with the 6MWT, following international recommendations. Five equations were analyzed. The distance covered by the patients (503±102 meters) was relatively close to the distances predicted by the reference equations (82-94% of the predicted), although statistically lower (p<0.05 for all).
- Subjects
REFERENCE values; STATISTICS; EXERCISE tolerance; CONFIDENCE intervals; ANALYSIS of variance; FUNCTIONAL status; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; CROSS-sectional method; LUNG tumors; HEALTH surveys; MANN Whitney U Test; CANCER patients; T-test (Statistics); QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; DATA analysis
- Publication
Fisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 4, p429
- ISSN
1809-2950
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1809-2950/20027427042020