Versão brasileira da Short Physical Performance Battery SPPB

Association Between Physical Functioning and Time Until a New Hospitalization in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study

“…52.2%; AUC, 0.59) for men and women, respectively. 19 Functional performance was evaluated according to the protocol proposed by the SPPB (internal consistency α = 0.725, interrater reliability intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = 0.996, intra-rater reliability ICC = 0.876), 20 considering the cut-off value for poor functional performance at 7 (sensitivity, 60.0%; specificity, 79.0%). 21 Balance was assessed using the step test, considering the time taken to place the feet alternately on a standard step.…”

Effects of Conventional Proprioceptive Training and Virtual Reality on Functionality and Fear of Falling in Elderly Women: Randomized Clinical Trial

“…To evaluate the functional physical performance of the lower limbs, we used the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), which consists of a battery of tests proposed by Guralnik in 1994, and adapted and validated for the Brazilian population [29]. This instrument evaluates physical capacity, prioritizing tests of lower limb function, and is composed of three steps: balance, gait speed, and getting up and sitting down from a chair.…”

“…For the walking speed test, a distance of 3 meters was adopted, and the participants were instructed to walk this distance at their usual pace, with two times recorded (round trip), and the shortest execution time was considered. The chair standing and sitting test was performed using a 44 cm chair, in which the participants stood up and sat down in the chair five consecutive times, without the aid of their upper limbs, and as fast as possible [29].…”

“…The three steps are scored from 0 to 4, according to the time for each task. The total SPPB score was obtained by the sum of the scores in the balance tests, gait speed, and getting up from a chair five consecutive times, ranging from 0 (worst performance) to 12 points (best performance) [29].…”

Avaliação do idoso

“…Há que se observar, ainda, que as medidas de desempenho avaliam objetivamente as limitações funcionais, enquanto os auto-relatos referem-se à incapacidade para realizar atividades e papéis socialmente definidos. A importância da SPPB nos estudos da mobilidade do idoso motivou sua adaptação cultural para utilização no Brasil, assim como o estudo da sua confiabilidade, por NAKANO (2007).…”