Journal article
Inexperienced examiners and the Foot Posture Index: A reliability study
Manual therapy, Vol.26, pp.238-240
12/2016
PMID: 27372400
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Abstract
The Foot Posture Index (FPI-6) is a reliable (experienced examiners) assessment tool used in clinical practice to classify foot posture. No work has been completed to determine the reliability of the FPI-6 between novice examiners. Therefore, the aim was to determine the inter-examiner reliability of the FPI-6 using two novice examiners (graduate level osteopathy students). The FPI-6 was used to classify the feet of 83 students recruited as part of a larger study. Data were collected simultaneously by both examiners, but there was no communication between them. The scoring system provided by the FPI-6 manual was used to assess all feet. Collated data were assessed between examiners for reliability based on raw, transformed and foot type scores. The inter-examiner reliability was high for both left (intra-class correlation coefficient ICC2,1 = 0.86) and right (ICC2,1 = 0.85) feet for the novice examiners. When data were assessed based on foot type classification the examiners agreed on 76% of the left feet and 82% of the right feet with Kappa values of 0.73 and 0.72 respectively. The FPI-6 is a robust clinical tool that can be reliably utilised by inexperienced clinicians.
Details
- Title
- Inexperienced examiners and the Foot Posture Index: A reliability study
- Creators
- Patrick McLaughlin - College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaBrett Vaughan - College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaJames Shanahan - College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaJake Martin - College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaGabriel Linger - College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
- Publication Details
- Manual therapy, Vol.26, pp.238-240
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991012958095102368
- Academic Unit
- Allied Health and Midwifery; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article