The agreement of the various distance walkway in the 6-minute walk test in healthy adults

Busaba Chuatrakoon, Natakit Seepang, Derin Chaiwong, Rawes Nanavichit, Kittipan Rerkasem and Sothida Nantakool

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-8

Abstract: Background: Despite a practical guideline of 30-meter walking path during 6-minute walk test (6MWT), such walking course length is not possible in every clinical setting due to unavailable sufficient space. Existing evidence has investigated using several shorter course lengths, it remains unclear whether a walking course length shorter than the standard walking course length is appropriate for 6MWD testing. This study aimed (i) to compare maximum walking distances at various shorter walking course lengths (i.e., 10, 20, and 25 meters) and 30 meters, and (ii) to assess agreements in maximum walking distances achieved at intervals below 30 meters, specifically 10, 15, 20, and 25 meters. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional with cross-over design. Forty-eight healthy participants were randomly ordered to perform 6MWT with five different walkways (10, 15, 20, 25, 30 meters). The maximum walking distance (six-minute walk distance, 6MWD) covered was recorded. Results: Eligible participants aged 41.0 ± 17.2 years, with equal sex (24 males) participated in this study. The 6MWD at 10, 15, and 20-meter walkways significantly shorter than the 30-meter standard walkway (489.6 ± 59.3 m, 513.1 ± 62.6 m, 524.7 ± 63.7 m vs 539.1 ± 63.1 m, respectively (P

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0321503 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id= ... 21503&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pone00:0321503

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321503

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosone ().