Measures of perceived mobility ability in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review of psychometric properties.

"Declaration of Conflicts of Interest M.B. holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Mobility, Ageing, and Chronic Disease. P.R. holds the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge, is the Director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Ageing and the Labarge Centre for Mobility in Ageing, and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Geroscience."

"This review focuses on self-report measures of perceived mobility for older community-dwelling adults. We registered the review protocol with PROSPERO (CRD42022306689). The WHO World Report on Ageing and Health describes the ability to be mobile as ‘movement in all its forms by the body (with or without an assistive device) and/or a vehicle’ and proposes the following sub-domains: getting up from a chair or moving from a bed to a chair, walking for leisure, exercising, completing daily tasks, driving a car and/or using public transportation [, ]. We used this definition of ability to be mobile to identify eligible measures. If a measure included both mobility- and non-mobility-related items, we only included the measure if 80% or more of the items were related to mobility or if it had a sub-domain solely related to the mobility construct. Methods: We registered the review protocol with PROSPERO (CRD42022306689) and included studies that examined the psychometric properties of perceived mobility measures in community-dwelling older adults. Five databases were searched to identify potentially relevant primary studies. We qualitatively summarised psychometric property estimates and related operational frameworks. We conducted risk of bias and overall quality assessments, and meta-analyses when at least three studies were included for a particular outcome. The synthesised results were compared against the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments criteria for good measurement properties."