Reference values for the six-minute pegboard and ring test in young-middle aged healthy adults in Turkey

Year 2025, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 1 - 8, 31.01.2025

Hacer Öncü , Ebru Çalık Kütükcü , Ulaş Ar , Nurel Ertürk , Ayşe Akdal , Şeyma Bülbül , Ferhat Ünal

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the reference values of the 6 Minute Pegboard and Ring Test (6PBRT) unsupported arm function exercise test in young and middle-aged healthy adults in Turkey and to correlate the results with arm length, dominant side arm and forearm circumference and physical activity level.
Methods: Arm length, arm and forearm circumference, unsupported arm exercise capacity, physical activity level were evaluated.
Results: A total of 132 participants (mean age= 33.59 ± 11.65 years), 88 women and 44 men, participated in the study. There were moderate, oppositeand significant (r=-0.402; p<0.001), weakly oppositeand significant (r=-0.195; p=0.025), weakly opposite and significant (r=-0.205; p=0.018), weakly and significant (r=0.312; p<0.001), and moderately significant (r=0.552; p<0.001) associations between number of rings and age, weight, maximum activity score (MAS), and adjusted activity score (AAS). When the whole model was evaluated separately by gender and in general; the effective variables on the number of rings for female were age (B=-1.063; t=-2.794;p=0.007) and AAS (B=0.591; t=3.993; p<0.001).Variables affecting the number of rings for male; Dyspnea difference (B=-11,537; t=-4.135; p<0.001) and MAS (B=1.740; t=3.773; p=0.001).Variables affecting the number of rings regardless of gender are age (B=-0.987; t=-3.743; p<0.001) and HAPaas (B=0.649; t=6.515; p<0.001).
Conclusion: In this study, reference values for 6PBRT were determined in healthy young and middle-aged adults in Turkey. It was found that there was a correlation between 6PBRT results and age, weight, BMI and physical activity level.

Keywords

Upper extremity, physical activity, physical endurance, exercise tolerance, exercise test.

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