@misc{10481/61862,
year = {2020},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61862},
abstract = {The development of innovative solutions that allow the aging population to remain
healthier and independent longer is essential to alleviate the burden that this increasing segment of the
population supposes for the long term sustainability of the public health systems. It has been claimed
that promoting physical activity could prevent functional decline. However, given the vulnerability of
this population, the activity prescription requires to be tailored to the individual’s physical condition.
We propose mobile Senior Fitness Test (m-SFT), a novel m-health system, that allows the health
practitioner to determine the elderly physical condition by implementing a smartphone-based version
of the senior fitness test (SFT). The technical reliability of m-SFT has been tested by carrying out a
comparative study in seven volunteers (53–61 years) between the original SFT and the proposed
m-health system obtaining high agreement (intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) between 0.93 and
0.99). The system usability has been evaluated by 34 independent health experts (mean = 36.64 years;
standard deviation = 6.26 years) by means of the System Usability Scale (SUS) obtaining an average
SUS score of 84.4 out of 100. Both results point out that m-SFT is a reliable and easy to use m-health
system for the evaluation of the elderly physical condition, also useful in intervention programs to
follow-up the patient’s evolution.},
organization = {This research was funded by the EU Marie Curie grant number H2020-MSCA-IF-2016-DeciTrustNET-
746398 and the National Spanish project grant number TIN2016-75850-P. The APC was funded by EU Marie Curie
grant number H2020-MSCA-IF-2016-DeciTrustNET-746398.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Senior fitness test},
keywords = {Physical condition},
keywords = {Physical condition assessment},
keywords = {Mobile health},
keywords = {Healthy aging},
title = {m-SFT: A Novel Mobile Health System to Assess the Elderly Physical Condition},
doi = {10.3390/s20051462},
author = {Ureña, Raquel and Chiclana Parrilla, Francisco and González Álvarez, Álvaro and Herrera Viedma, Enrique and Moral Muñoz, José Antonio},
}