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Table 5 Inter- and intra examiner reliability of Gaze Stability (GS) and Smooth Pursuit Neck Torsion Test (SPNTT)

From: Reliability, construct and discriminative validity of clinical testing in subjects with and without chronic neck pain

Variable

N

Prevalence of index condition

Expected agreement (%)

Overall agreement (%)

κ -value

PAB-AK

(95% CI)

GS

Inter 1

42

0.48

50.00

85.71

0.71

-

(0.50; 0.93)

Inter 2

36

0.56

50.46

83.33

0.66

-

(0.42; 0.91)

Intra A

27

0.43

51.03

96.30

0.92

-

(0.78; 1.00)

Intra B

27

0.50

49.93

88.89

0.78

-

(0.54; 1.00)

SPNTT

Inter 1

42

0.27

59.98

78.57

0.46

0.57

(0.17; 0.76)

Inter 2

36

0.38

52.78

86.11

0.71

0.72

(0.47; 0.94)

Intra A

27

0.22

64.33

85.19

0.59

0.70

(0.24; 0.93)

Intra B

27

0.31

56.79

88.89

0.74

0.78

(0.47; 1.00)

  1. κ statistics, prevalence of the index condition, expected agreement, overall agreement, Prevalence Adjusted Bias Adjusted Kappa (PABAK) and 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI).