Prospective study of the impact of fear of falling on activities of daily living, SF-36 scores, and nursing home admission.

By Robert G Cumming, G. Salkeld, Margaret Thomas, G. Szőnyi. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2000

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Subfields: Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation

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• Prevalence and correlates of fear of falling, and associated avoidance of activity in the general population of community-living older people. (2007, background): “Fear of falling, and associated avoidance of activity may lead to adverse consequences, like functional decline [7], restriction of social participation [2], decreased quality of life [3, 7] and increased risk of falling [10] and institutionalisation [7].”
• The Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I). A comprehensive longitudinal validation study. (2010, neutral): “After 12-month follow-up, the baseline FES-I was able to discriminate between multiple fallers and non multiple fallers [2, 22, 28], certain falls risk factors and overall disability [30].”
• Epidemiology of falls. (2001, background): “Around a third of older people develop a fear of falling after an incidental fall [50] and those with a fear of falling ( low falls efficacy scale score) had an increased risk of falling, reduced activities of daily living, lower quality of life (Short-Form 36) and increased institutionalization [51”
• Skeletal muscle performance and ageing (2017, neutral): “Fear of falling is another classic example.(254,255) Fear of falling is independently associated with increased sedentary behaviour time(256) and decreased physical activity,(257) which negatively affects physical function in elderly people.”
• Development and initial validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I). (2005, background): “This scale (and its later modifications) has excellent reliability, is correlated with measures of balance and gait [14, 15], and predicts future falls and decline in functional capacity [5, 10, 13, 15, 16].”
• Fear of falling: measurement strategy, prevalence, risk factors and consequences among older persons. (2008, methodology): “Two studies used the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey to measure physical activity [5, 16]; Tinetti et al.”