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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to verify the validity of the Turkish version of the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (PASS) in chronic stroke, and to compare its validity, reliability, and responsiveness characteristics with Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Brunel Balance Assessment (BBA). Method: 49 chronic stroke patients were included in the study. Those participating in the study were applied PASS, BBS and BBA on the first day. To measure the test-retest reliability, the second assessment for the scales was performed by the same physiotherapist 1 week after the initial evaluation. Results: According to the correlation analysis, a very high level of correlation was found between the PASS first and second assessment scores (r = 0.984). Cronbach Alpha Coefficient was found to be 0.995 (excellent). The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) value for PASS was 0.995. A high level of correlation was found between PASS, BBS and BBA. No ceiling and floor effects were observed for PASS. Conclusion: The results of our study showed that Turkish version of PASS is a valid and reliable scale in chronic stroke patients and all these three scales, which are commonly used to assess balance in stroke patients are, made repeatable measurements in patients with chronic stroke. The test re-test reliability values of these three scales were found to be excellent. Minimal detectable change values, which are used to determine a real change in balance in stroke patients by clinicians, were found to be close to each other for these balance scales.

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