TheSemmes-Weinstein Monofilament Test(10 g) was used to test protection sensitivity of the intact foot [75]. Four sites of application were evaluated (big toe, top of the first, third and fifth metacarpals), at a rate of two actual stimulations plus one factice per site. The rest-retest...
is self-administered and validated for different clienteles [102–104]. It begins with questions on the activities that require low energy expenditure and ends with questions associated with high energy levels. Each item must be answered
A minimum sample size of 25 participants was determined using a two-tailed Wilcoxon signed-rank test power analysis with an 𝛼 of 0.05, power of 0.8, and effect size index of 0.61. Our effect size is similar to other long-term HRI studies with older adults [64,65], which had effect ...