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ArticleNursing open2023

Association between fear of falling and self-care behaviours of older people with hypertension.

Leila Kouchaki, Ali Darvishpoor Kakhki, Zahra Safavi Bayat, Hafiz T A Khan

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Article in Nursing open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Leila KouchakiStudent Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali Darvishpoor KakhkiDepartment of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-4631-8316
Zahra Safavi BayatDepartment of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hafiz T A KhanCollege of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, University of West London, London, UK.

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Abstract

aimThis study investigated the association between fear of falling and self-care behaviours of older people with hypertension.

designA cross-sectional study.

methodsThis study was conducted in 2019 on 301 older people with hypertension above the age of 60 years in Tehran, Iran. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, the Persian Falls Efficacy Scale-International, and a hypertension-related self-care behaviour questionnaire.

resultsAnalyses revealed that gender, educational level and history of falling were significant factors associated with fear of falling; and marital status, educational level and income source were significant factors associated with self-care behaviours (p < 0.05). Partial correlations controlling for education revealed a significant positive correlation showing that high fear of falling is associated with worse health promotion self-care behaviours and significant inverse correlations with psycho-emotional, social and daily self-care behaviours (p < 0.05), meaning that high fear of falling is associated with better self-care for these dimensions. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: This study involved patients in order to evaluate the validity and reliability of the questionnaires. The study was conducted on older people with hypertension referred to hypertension clinics in hospitals.

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Accidental FallsSelf CareAgedCross-Sectional StudiesFearHumansIranMiddle AgedReproducibility of Resultsaccidental fallsagedfearhypertensionself-care

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PMCPMC10170935

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