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The Balance Recovery Confidence (BRC) Scale was developed to quantify perceived ability to regain balance across a range of destabilising situations. However, its psychometric properties have not yet been established in persons with stroke.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To translate the BRC Scale into Thai and evaluate its reliability, validity, and ability to discriminate fall history in persons with stroke.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This cross-sectional study translated the BRC into Thai following established guidelines and recruited 180 individuals with subacute or chronic stroke from tertiary rehabilitation centers. Psychometric evaluations included test\u2013retest reliability (ICC), internal consistency (Cronbach\u2019s alpha), construct validity (Spearman\u2019s correlations with BESTest items 14\u201318 and the ABC-Thai), and discriminative validity using ROC analysis with fall history as the reference.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The BRC-Thai demonstrated excellent test\u2013retest reliability (ICC\u202f=\u202f0.991) and strong correlations with BESTest items 14\u201318 (r\u202f=\u202f0.766) and the ABC-Thai (r\u202f=\u202f0.838). Internal consistency was excellent (Cronbach\u2019s\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.985), with item\u2013total correlations ranging from 0.825 to 0.910. Participants with a history of falls had significantly lower BRC-Thai scores than those without (\n                      <jats:italic>p\u202f&amp;lt;<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f0.01). ROC analysis (AUC\u202f=\u202f0.784) indicated good discriminative ability, with an optimal cutoff score of 95\/190 (70.3% sensitivity; 78.3% specificity).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The BRC-Thai is a reliable and valid measure of perceived reactive balance recovery in individuals with stroke.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnagi.2026.1813047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,14]],"date-time":"2026-05-14T05:35:09Z","timestamp":1778736909000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Reliability and validity of the balance recovery confidence scale in persons with stroke"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Laksika","family":"Wangthomrong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nithinun","family":"Chaikeeree","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wanvisa","family":"Panichaporn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chayanee","family":"Limsuwan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junethita","family":"Klongchant","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shawn Leng-Hsien","family":"Soh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Health and Social Sciences Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology","place":["Singapore, Singapore"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rumpa","family":"Boonsinsukh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physical Therapy, Srinakharinwirot University","place":["Bangkok, Thailand"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"876","DOI":"10.2340\/16501977-0873","article-title":"Prediction of falling among stroke patients in rehabilitation","volume":"43","author":"Baetens","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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