A primary objective of the study was to determine the validity of a SenseWear (SW) activity monitor (AM) in assessing Energy Expenditure (EE) of manual wheelchair users with spinal cord Injury (SCI) while resting and performing three types of physical activities including wheelchair propulsion, arm-ergometer exercise, and deskwork. A secondary objective of the study was to build and validate a new EE prediction model for a SW AM for the physical activities performed in the study. A tertiary objective was to examine the relationship between the criterion EE and three activity monitors including the ActiGraph, the RT3 on arm, and RT3 on waist. Ten manual wheelchair users with SCI were recruited to participate in this pilot study.
The results indicate that EE estimated by SenseWear AM with the default EE equationfor resting was close (0.2%) to the criterion EE in manual wheelchair users with SCI. However, the SW AM overestimated EE during deskwork, wheelchair propulsion and arm-ergometry exercise by 6.5%, 105% and 32%, respectively.
From the investigation, we found that the EE estimated by SW AM using the new regression equation model significantly improved its performance in manual wheelchair users with SCI. The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient of EE estimated by SW using new prediction equation and the criterion EE were excellent (0.90) and moderate (0.74) with percent errors reduced to 17.4% and 7.0% for wheelchair propulsion and arm-ergometry exercise, respectively. The new prediction equation for SW AM was able to differentiate and discriminate (sensitive)EE estimation in physical activities like wheelchair propulsion and arm-ergometer exercises in manual wheelchair users with SCI indicating that it has a potential to be used in manual wheelchair users with SCI.
In addition, the variance explained by RT3 (R2 = 0.68, p<0.001) on arm and the ActiGraph (R2 = 0.59, p<0.001) on the wrist wrist indicate that AMs placed on an arm or wrist may be able to better predict EE compared to the AM on the waist.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-07302009-121531 |
| Date | 10 September 2009 |
| Creators | Hiremath, Shivayogi Vishwanath |
| Contributors | Kim Crawford, Dan Ding, Rory A. Cooper |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07302009-121531/ |
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