ArticleCurrent gerontology and geriatrics research2016
Development and Evaluation of an Online Fall-Risk Questionnaire for Nonfrail Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons: A Pilot Study.
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- Validation of the German falls risk questionnaire, fall risk check (FRC), in community-dwelling seniors : A diagnostic accuracy study.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2025Trial
- Validity of the German version of the Stay Independent Questionnaire applied by telephone interview: A diagnostic accuracy study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Fall risk question-based tools for fall screening in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review of the literature.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2023Review
- Predictive ability of a self-rated fall risk assessment tool in community-dwelling older women.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
- Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of the Fall Risk Questionnaire-Portuguese Version.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Predictive validity of the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) program fall risk screening algorithms among community-dwelling Thai elderly.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Development of a Parkinson's disease specific falls questionnaire.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- The Stay Independent Brochure as a Screening Evaluation for Fall Risk in an Elderly Thai Population.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Article
- Questionnaire development and validation for designing a health telemonitoring system for frail elderly people.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Introduction. Falls are frequent in older adults and may have serious consequences but awareness of fall-risk is often low. A questionnaire might raise awareness of fall-risk; therefore we set out to construct and test such a questionnaire. Methods. Fall-risk factors and their odds ratios were extracted from meta-analyses and a questionnaire was devised to cover these risk factors. A formula to estimate the probability of future falls was set up using the extracted odds ratios. The understandability of the questionnaire and discrimination and calibration of the prediction formula were tested in a cohort study with a six-month follow-up. Community-dwelling persons over 60 years were recruited by an e-mail snowball-sampling method. Results and Discussion. We included 134 persons. Response rates for the monthly fall-related follow-up varied between the months and ranged from low 38% to high 90%. The proportion of present risk factors was low. Twenty-five participants reported falls. Discrimination was moderate (AUC: 0.67, 95% CI 0.54 to 0.81). The understandability, with the exception of five questions, was good. The wording of the questions needs to be improved and measures to increase the monthly response rates are needed before test-retest reliability and final predictive value can be assessed.
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