Why the study?
Does the 6-Minute Step Test provide valid and reliable exercise assessment in healthy individuals?
Does the 6-Minute Step Test provide valid and reliable exercise assessment in healthy individuals?
Assessment of the 6-minute step test may provide a reliable, valid, and easily conducted exercise testing alternative for primary care.
Supports the 6-minute step test as a potential primary care tool; leaves open prospective validation in clinical populations.
Six-minute step test is an exercise test that is easy to be conducted, more tolerable than a graded exercise test, requires fewer equipments and space, and permits better monitoring of the participants. The assessment of the reliability, validity, and reference values will provide a better interpretability for clinicians to use it, especially in primary care.
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