Convergent validity and responsiveness of The Standing and Walking Assessment Tool (SWAT) among individuals with non-traumatic spinal cord injury

This study evaluates a tool called the Standing and Walking Assessment Tool (SWAT) for people with non-traumatic spinal cord injuries. The SWAT is used to track how well patients recover their ability to stand and walk. The study checks if the SWAT is a reliable and accurate way to measure progress in these patients. Researchers looked at data from patients undergoing rehabilitation to see if the SWAT scores matched other ways of measuring walking ability. They also wanted to see if changes in SWAT scores reflected actual improvements in a patient's standing and walking skills during their rehabilitation stay. The results suggest that the SWAT is indeed a useful tool for tracking progress and understanding the recovery of standing and walking abilities in people with non-traumatic spinal cord injuries. This can help doctors and therapists make better decisions about treatment and care.

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  The SWAT has sufficient convergent validity and responsiveness for describing standing and walking recovery and communicating/monitoring rehabilitation progress among patients with NT-SCI/D.
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  Moderate correlations between SWAT stages and walking measures were observed.
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  The correlation of hours of gait therapy with the SWAT change (admission to discharge) was 0.44 (p  <  0001).