ArticleClinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil)2020
Interaction between cognitive status, fear of falling, and balance in elderly persons.
Article in Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Interpretable machine learning-based predictive model for fall risk in older adults receiving maintenance hemodialysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Construction and validation of a fall risk prediction model in elderly maintenance hemodialysis patients: a multicenter prospective cohort study.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality on Physical Function, Fall-Related Outcomes, Fatigue, and Quality of Life in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Falls and Sleep Disorders in Spanish Alzheimer's Disease in Nursing Homes: An Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of Muscle Strength, Agility, and Fear of Falling on Risk of Falling in Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Fear of Falling in Individuals with Different Types of Mild Cognitive Impairment.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Can an Eight-Session Multicomponent Physical Exercise Program Reduce Fall Risk and Fear of Falling among the Elderly?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gastrocnemius Medial Head Stiffness Is Associated with Potential Fall Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Measuring Balance Abilities of Transtibial Amputees Using Multiattribute Utility Theory.BioMed research international · 2021Article
- Association between falls and cognitive performance among community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicinaArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveEvaluate the cognitive function and its relationship with balance, history of falls, and fear of falling in the elderly.
methodsWe evaluated 250 elderly persons aged at least 60 years, who answered a sociodemographic questionnaire about the occurrence of falls in the last year. The cognitive function, balance, and fear of falling were assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Berg Balance Scale (BBS), and Falls Efficacy Scale (FES-I) scores, respectively. Participants were allocated into two groups based on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score, the Group with Possible Cognitive Decline (GPCD) and the group with no cognitive decline (GNCD). We performed Student's t-test and Pearson's correlation for independent samples.
resultsThe Group with Possible Cognitive Decline (GPCD) showed lower balance (p=0.003) and greater fear of falling (p=0.008) (BBS=50.98±4.68; FES-I=26.06±8.78) compared to the GNCD (BBS=52.53±3.047; FES-I=23.21±7.74).
conclusionElderly persons with cognitive decline have lower balance, greater fear of falling, and greater recurrence of falls.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.