POrtable WARrior Test Of Tactical AgiLity: POWAR-TOTAL

Abstract

The goals of this project were to establish project infrastructure and regulatory approvals, compare POWAR-TOTAL performance in healthy controls (n=60) to those with concussion (n=100)recruiting from Fort Bragg and Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC), and examine how POWARTOTAL scores change with rehabilitation recovery for those with concussion. As of September2020 we had collected data on 60/60 healthy control participants and 75/100 individuals with mTBI using the POWAR-TOTAL, (50 pre- post-test). During the 2020-21 year we published two papers sharing the primary findings of our study, supporting the value of the POWAR-TOTAL test in differentiating motor and cognitive task performance of those with mTBI compared to healthy control peers. An additional paper on the responsiveness and validity of the measure has been submitted to Physical Therapy Journal, and a fourth paper that uses machine learning approaches is being drafted to submit to Journal of Neurotrauma.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1191068

Entities

People

  • Amy Cecchini
  • Karen McCulloch

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Biomedical Research
  • Brain Injuries
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Training
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Science
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Medicine.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML