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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Gait Speed with Anti-Slip Devices on Icy Pedestrian Crossings Relate to Perceived Fall-Risk and Balance.

Agneta Larsson, Glenn Berggård, Peter Rosander, Gunvor Gard

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Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impact of Weather on Pedestrians' Slip Risk.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Article
  2. Associations between meteorological factors and emergency department visits for unintentional falls during Ontario winters.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2021
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Slip and Fall Incidents at Work: A Visual Analytics Analysis of the Research Domain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
    Article
  5. Prevalence of Falls on Mount Fuji and Associated with Risk Factors: A Questionnaire Survey Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Agneta LarssonDepartment of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden. agneta.larsson@ltu.se.ORCID 0000-0003-3619-2297
Glenn BerggårdDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden. glenn.berggard@ltu.se.
Peter RosanderDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden.
Gunvor GardDepartment of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden.
Luleå University of Technology · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is important to find criteria for preventive measures and appropriate assistive devices to reduce pedestrian injuries and increase walking in winter. Reducing the rate of falls on icy surfaces and improving people's ability to safely cross a street in winter conditions by achieving an adequate walking speed, for example, need to be considered. This study explores pedestrian perceptions of fall risk, balance, and footfall transitions while using different designs for anti-slip devices on ice and snow-covered ice and relates these to measures of gait speed and friction. Trials were performed with nine pedestrians testing 19 anti-slip devices on ice and ice covered with snow. Laboratory tests of the dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) on plain ice were also performed. The findings suggest that there was conformity in the participants' perceptions of good balance and low fall risk for one-fifth of the devices (three whole-foot designs and one design with built-in spikes). We also found that gait speed on icy pedestrian crossings is related to perceived fall-risk and balance control, but not to DCOF of the anti-slip devices.

Indexed as

IceProtective ClothingSeasonsShoesAccidental FallsAdultAgedFemaleFrictionHumansMaleMiddle AgedPedestriansPerceptionPostural BalanceRiskIceanti-slip deviceclassificationgait speedpedestrian crossingpostural controlsafetywinter conditions

Identifiers

PMID31295887
PMCPMC6678553
OpenAlexW2958183328

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