title: Korean Version of the ABILOCO Questionnaire in the Assessment of Locomotion in Hemiplegic Stroke Patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the intra- and inter-rater reliability of the Korean version of the ABILOCO questionnaire (K-ABILOCO).
  
  
  METHODS
  The original ABILOCO questionnaire was translated into Korean and back-translated into English. Stroke patients (n=30) with hemiplegia were evaluated using the K-ABILOCO at one week interval. At each visit, the physiatrist also evaluated patient performance of the activities described in the K-ABILOCO, and the total logit scores were recorded. The total scores were used to evaluate intraclass correlation (ICC). Test-retest scores and each test scores were compared to obtain the intra- and inter-rater reliability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The K-ABILOCO showed good intra-rater correlation at one week interval in both patient and physiatrist evaluations (ICC=0.81, 0.91), respectively. It also showed a high inter-rater correlation between the patient and physiatrist at both the first and second visits (ICC=0.76, 0.84), respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The K-ABILOCO is a useful tool that may reliably evaluate the locomotion ability in hemiplegic stroke patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Won Joon
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Geun Young
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Zee A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Hye Won
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sei Un
authors.initials: SU
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Seon Jeong
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Hyun Mi
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Sun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Im
keywords: Locomotion; Questionnaires; Stroke