Validity and Inter-Device Reliability of the OTBeat Burn<sup>TM</sup> Monitor to Estimate Heart Rate During Exercise
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The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and reliability of the OTBeat Burn heart rate monitor during an incremental test to exhaustion on a cycle ergometer. Twenty males (mean ± SD age = 21.1 ± 1.9 years) volunteered to complete a test to exhaustion on a cycle ergometer with OTBeat Burn devices placed on the forearm and upper arm with a 12-lead electrocardiogram used as the criterion. Heart rate was recorded every 30 seconds and averaged across each two-minute stage. Accuracy was assessed through calculation of mean absolute percent error (MAPE), Bland-Altman plot, and Lin’s Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC). An intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess inter-device reliability. Statistical significance was set at αt 0.05. The MAPE (± SD), Bland-Altman regression analyses, and Lin’s CCC values were 0.9 (± 0.6)% and 0.8 (± 0.5)%, r = 0.107 and 0.303, rc = 0.998 and 0.998 for the forearm and the upper arm monitors, respectively. The ICC for inter-device reliability was R = 0.999. Our findings indicated the OTBeat Burn monitors placed on the forearm and upper arm provided highly accurate and reliable values when compared to an electrocardiogram from low to maximal exercise intensities.