TY - JOUR
T1 - Fear of falling in elderly persons
T2 - Association with falls, functional ability, and quality of life
AU - Li, Fuzhong
AU - Fisher, K. John
AU - Harmer, Peter
AU - McAuley, Edward
AU - Wilson, Nicole L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments : The authors are grateful to the Director, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India, for providing all the necessary facilities to carry out the above research work. The authors are also indebted to Prof. Indranil Manna, for his kind help in the low angle XRD analysis of the samples. Thanks are also due to Ms Soumi Dey Sarkar, MTech Fellow for her constant interest and assistance in preparation of the samples in this work. The work was carried out with the financial support of CSIR Network Program (11th 5-Year Plan), No. NWP-0035.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - This study examined heterogeneity in response patterns of the participants of the Survey of Activities and Fear of Falling in the Elderly (SAFFE) and their relationships to falls, functional ability, quality of life, and activity restriction measures in a cohort of 256 older people (mean age = 77.5 years). Participants recruited from local primary care clinics were administered the SAFFE instrument, an activity restriction measure, a combination of self-reported and performance-based functional ability tests, and quality-of-life measures. Latent class analyses identified two classes: Class 1 (n = 209), which had a low SAFFE fear of falling, and Class 2 (n = 47), which had a high SAFFE fear of falling. Subsequent analyses of variance indicated that the two-class (low fear and high fear) SAFFE fear of falling profiles discriminated fallers from nonfallers, and low and high levels of functional ability, activity restriction, and quality of life. The findings from this study suggest that variations in the SAFFE response patterns on a single dimension of fear of falling and that high levels of fear of falling measured by the SAFFE are linked to a range of adverse health consequences.
AB - This study examined heterogeneity in response patterns of the participants of the Survey of Activities and Fear of Falling in the Elderly (SAFFE) and their relationships to falls, functional ability, quality of life, and activity restriction measures in a cohort of 256 older people (mean age = 77.5 years). Participants recruited from local primary care clinics were administered the SAFFE instrument, an activity restriction measure, a combination of self-reported and performance-based functional ability tests, and quality-of-life measures. Latent class analyses identified two classes: Class 1 (n = 209), which had a low SAFFE fear of falling, and Class 2 (n = 47), which had a high SAFFE fear of falling. Subsequent analyses of variance indicated that the two-class (low fear and high fear) SAFFE fear of falling profiles discriminated fallers from nonfallers, and low and high levels of functional ability, activity restriction, and quality of life. The findings from this study suggest that variations in the SAFFE response patterns on a single dimension of fear of falling and that high levels of fear of falling measured by the SAFFE are linked to a range of adverse health consequences.
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/58.5.P283
DO - 10.1093/geronb/58.5.P283
M3 - Article
C2 - 14507935
AN - SCOPUS:0141651689
VL - 58
SP - P283-P290
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
SN - 1079-5014
IS - 5
ER -