Risk factors for future falls among community-dwelling older adults without a fall in the previous year: a prospective one-year longitudinal study
| Autor: | Lara Gonçalves Freitas, Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu, Erika Leitner, Renato Campos Freire Júnior, Natalia Camargo Rodrigues Iosimuta, Jaqueline Mello Porto, Roberta de Matos Brunelli Braghin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
Longitudinal study medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Rehabilitation Variables 030214 geriatrics business.industry medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Confounding Falls in older adults Logistic regression ESTUDOS PROSPECTIVOS 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Epidemiology Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology Risk factor business Gerontology Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| Popis: | Introduction One of the main risk factor for falls is a history of falls itself. Henceforth, preventing a fall is an important strategy for the prevention of new ones. The objective of the present study was to determine whether personal self-perception questions and functional tests might represent risk factors for a fall during the year following a year without any falls among independent community-dwelling older adults, considering a period of 12 prospective months. Methods A total of 101 community-dwelling older adults without a fall in the previous year underwent an initial evaluation (sample characterization, self-perception questionnaire and functional tests) and monthly monitoring of prospective fall episodes by telephone contact. We determined the association between the occurrence of prospective falls (dependent variable) and personal questions and functional tests (independent variables) with multiple binary logistic regression adjusted for confounding variables. Results Only age (p = 0.005) and self-perception of general health (p = 0.019) showed association with the occurrence of prospective falls. Conclusion Our results showed that the only factors bearing an association with the occurrence of prospective falls were age and general health self-perception, which demonstrates the importance of administrating self-perception measures in clinical practice or in epidemiological studies for the prevention of a fall during the year following a year without any falls in older adults. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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