Modified shuttle test performance in hospitalized children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis

Abstract

This study demonstrated the utility of the MST to assess the effect of hospitalisation for i.v. antibiotic and supportive therapy in children and adolescents with CF.

Multiple components of fitness improved among overweight and obese adolescents following a community-based lifestyle intervention

“…Overall, the participants in the current study had low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness at baseline as estimated from the shuttle walk. The mean distance in the modified shuttle test completed by participants in the current study at baseline was similar to that of another sample of obese adolescents (Klijn & van der Baan-Slootweg, 2007) and a sample of children with cystic fibrosis at hospital admission (Cox, Follett, & McKay, 2006). Therefore, the cardiorespiratory fitness level of the participants in this study approximated that of a population with serious lung disease, highlighting the urgent need to improve fitness in this population.…”

Exercise improves lung function and habitual activity in children with cystic fibrosis

“…Other subjects did not complete the study because of the timing of the second study visit, which was to take place earlier than the routine clinic visit, and posed a scheduling conflict for families with other constraints such as insurance authorizations for routine clinic visits. The MSWT has been validated for pediatric CF patients [13,[23][24][25]. Nevertheless, the study results may have been influenced either by a training effect, in which subjects may have improved exercise capacity because they learned to perform the test [14], or a ceiling effect, in which subjects would not have shown an improvement in exercise capacity above the test-defined maximum of 150 completed shuttles.…”

Six minute walk test versus incremental shuttle walk test in cystic fibrosis

“…Field exercise tests such as the 6 min walk test (6MWT) and incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) are simple, inexpensive and reliable assessments that provide a less stressful environment for patients. There is also some evidence that children prefer field tests including shuttle tests to laboratory exercise assessments such as treadmill tests …”