2020 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 91-94
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the 30- second chair-stand test (CS-30) score and the physical function of elderly people requiring long-term care. The subjects were 44 elderly people requiring long-term care who attended a daycare facility. Physical functions measured included grip strength, quadriceps muscle strength, and toe grip strength. To examine the relationship between physical function and CS-30 scores, we performed partial correlation analysis usingthedegreeof care required as a control variable and multiple regression analysis using CS-30 as a dependent variable. The partial correlation coefficients indicated that quadriceps muscle strength was significantly correlated with CS-30 scores; multiple regression analysis results indicated that quadriceps muscle strength is an independent factor related to CS-30 scores. These results suggest that CS-30 was associated with quadriceps muscle strength in the elderly people requiring long-term care attending a daycare facility. Some daycare facilities do not have equipment that can quantitatively evaluate lower limb muscle strength; therefore, the CS-30, which can gauge quadriceps muscle strength simply with no dedicated equipment, can be a useful index for use in daycare facilities for elder adults.
