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14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)

17.06. - 21.06.2019, Berlin

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Psychometric Properties of Purdue Pegboard Test

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  • presenting/speaker Ilkem Ceren Sigirtmaç - Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Cigdem Oksuz - Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy. 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). Berlin, 17.-21.06.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2020. DocIFSHT19-1265

doi: 10.3205/19ifssh1448, urn:nbn:de:0183-19ifssh14483

Published: February 6, 2020

© 2020 Sigirtmaç et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate reliability, validity and responsiveness of Purdue Pegboard Test (PPT).

Materials and Methods: The participants were 162 (98 female; 64 male) healthy and 101 (57 female; 44 male) hand injured individuals mean age of 38.48±10.04 and 37.51±12.65 years respectively. Test re-test reliability assessment was completed under the same conditions twice on different days with 7-14 interval days on healthy participants. For validity analysis, hypothesis testing analysis was used by assessing DASH and grip strength beside PPT with hand injured patients. The cut-off point was determined by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis method.

Results: PPT correlation coefficient was found 0.75 and 0.89. This result was shown that it was a reliable test. And the Pearson correlation coefficient between PPT and grip strength was moderate (r:0.35-0.59). The correlation coefficient of between PPT and DASH-T questionnaire was also -0.28 and -0.46. Effect size of PPT was found moderate (d:0,31-0,41). After ROC analysis, AUC value was 0.88 and cut-off point of PPT for mathematical total subset was found 48.5.

Conclusions: The PPT is reliable and valid test to use hand injured patients. It can be used both in clinic and research practice by utilize cut off point of it easily.