Fall Prevention: Relatedness of Adherence to Recommendations and Self-Rated Knowledge

Autor:	David Greene, Kaitlin Gibson, Cheri Cabrera, Pat L. Sample
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	business.industry Rehabilitation Sample (statistics) Falling (accident) Occupational Therapy Content analysis Medicine Narrative Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom business Gerontology Fall prevention Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics. 28:215-224
ISSN:	1541-3152 0270-3181
DOI:	10.3109/02703181.2010.509541
Popis:	Objective: Our intent was to explore the relationships between adherence to fall-prevention recommendations and client characteristics possibly related to adherence. Method: We used secondary data originally collected from the initial interviews/home evaluations and follow-up interviews of 120 participants from a previously completed community-based fall-prevention program. Correlations of data from all participants explored relationships between adherence to fall-prevention recommendations and initial concern for falling, self-rated health, and self-rated fall-prevention knowledge. To better understand whether participants gained understanding of the impact of adherence to recommendations, a content analysis was performed on narrative responses to a question regarding the effect of adherence to recommendations on one's ability to independently perform daily tasks. Results: Considering the entire sample, concern about falling was related to adherence to fall-prevention recommendations, but adheren...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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