Inter-rater reliability and validity of the Action Research arm test in stroke patients

Age and Ageing, March, 1998 by Ching-Lin Hsieh, I-Ping Hsueh, Fu-Mei Chiang, Po-Hsin Lin

                                      Score, by side(a)
                                      Left             Right
Item                                  0   1    2   3   0   1   2   3

Grasp subscale

Grasp and lift blocks, a cricket
ball and a sharpening stone from
one shelf of a table to another
(lift over 37 cm)

1. Block. 10 cm (if score = 3,
total = 18 and [right arrow]
grip subscale)

2. Block. 2.5 cm (if score = 0,
total = 0 and [right arrow] grip
subscale)

3. Block. 5 cm

4. Block. 7.5 cm

5. Cricket ball

6. Sharpening stone

Grip subscale

7. Pour water from one glass to
another (if score = 3, total = 12
and -- pinch subscale)

8. Displace an alloy tube (diameter
2.25 cm) from one side of the table
to the other (if score = 0, total
= 0 and -- pinch subscale)

9. Displace an alloy tube (diameter
1 cm) from one side of the table
to the other

10. Put washer over a bolt

Pinch subscale

Pinch and lift the ball bearing
marble from one shelf of a table to
another (lift over 37 cm)

11. Ball bearing of 6 mm, 3rd
finger and thumb (if score = .3,
total = 18 and [right arrow] gross
movement subscale)

12. Marble, 1st finger and thumb
(if score = 0, total = 0 and
[right arrow] gross movement
subscale)

13. Ball bearing of 6 mm, 2nd
finger and thumb

14. Ball bearing of 6 mm, 1st
finger and thumb

15. Marble, 3rd finger and thumb

16. Marble, 2nd finger and thumb

Gross movement subscale

17. Hand behind head (if score = 3,
total = 9 or if score = 0,
total = 0)

18. Hand on top of head

19. Hand to month

(a) performs the test normally; 2, completes the test but takes abnormally long or has great difficulty; 1, performs the test partially; 0, cannot perform any part of the test.

CHING-LIN HSIEH, I-PING HSUEH, FU-MEI CHIANG(1), PO-HSIN LIN

School of Occupation Theraphy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, 7 Chun-Shan S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

(1) Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Address correspondence to Ching-Lin Hsieh. Fax: ( 886) 2 391 0614; E-mail: mike26@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw