Cross-cultural validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I) in Greek community-dwelling older adults

Billis, Evdokia; Στριμπάκος, Νικόλαος; Kapreli, Eleni; Sakellari, Vasiliki; Skelton, Dawn A.; Dontas, Ismene; Ioannou, Frini; Filon, George; Gioftsos, George

doi:10.3109/09638288.2010.546937

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“…Lomas-Vega, HitaContreras, Mendoza, & Martínez-Amat, (2012) validated the FES-I in a sample of postmenopausal women, but studies are needed to confirm its validity for the global population. The fact that this has been done in many other languages such as Dutch, German, English and, more recently, Greek, Chinese or Turkish (Billis et al, 2011;Kwan et al, 2013;Ulus et al, 2012), suggests that it can very probably also be validated in Spanish, as it is a solid and consistent test irrespective of culture or language.…”

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confidence: 97%

Is there a relationship between short FES-I test scores and objective assessment of balance in the older people with age-induced instability?

Del-Río-Valeiras

Díz

Santos-Pérez

et al. 2016

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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confidence: 97%

Is there a relationship between short FES-I test scores and objective assessment of balance in the older people with age-induced instability?

Del-Río-Valeiras

Díz

Santos-Pérez

et al. 2016

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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“…To assess the test-retest reliability (in repetitive measurements), an initial assessment and a re-assessment, approximately at the same time and under the same conditions took place in a time frame of 7 to 10 days as similar research had followed (Godi et al, 2013;Βillis et al, 2011). The inter-rater reliability was used to assess the agreement between the grades given by the two raters (Ouzouni and Nakakis, 2011).…”

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“…Reliability in total scores also agrees with the study of Dahl and Jørgensen (2014) in stroke patients, even though in their study each patient was assessed by 3 examiners, which provides an advantage compared to our study; and the reassessment took place after 4 weeks compared to the 7-10 days timeframe of our study. The use of two examiners and assessement based on live observation instead of observation of video recordings in our study was chosen because of being a commonly used methodological procedure for this kind of research, and of being a common way of assessment in clinical settings (Löfgren et al, 2014; Maia, Rodrigues-de-Paula, Magalhães, and Teixeira, 2013; Tsang, Liao, Chung, and Pang, 2013;Βillis et al, 2011). Furthermore, a relatively big interval between the two assessments was not considered as methodologically correct for our study, given that 4 weeks is enough time for alterations in the environment or health status, and eventually in the performance of the participant to occur.…”

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“…The diagnostic tools that were used in this study were: Greek version of the Mini-BESTest (Mini-BESTest GR ) (Lampropoulou et al, 2016a); Greek version of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS GR ) (Lampropoulou et al, 2016a); Greek version of the international Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I GR ) (Βillis et al, 2011);Functional Reach Test (FRT) and the Timed Up and Go test (TUG).…”

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Reliability, validity and minimal detectable change of the Mini-BESTest in Greek participants with chronic stroke

Lampropoulou

Billis²,

Gedikoglou

et al. 2018

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Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the psychometric characteristics of reliability, validity and ability to detect change of a newly developed balance assessment tool, the Mini-BESTest, in Greek patients with stroke. Design: A prospective, observational design study with test-retest measures was conducted. Methods: A convenience sample of 21 Greek patients with chronic stroke (14 male, 7 female; age of 63 ± 16 years) was recruited. Two independent examiners administered the scale, for the inter-rater reliability, twice within 10 days for the test-retest reliability. Bland Altman Analysis for repeated measures assessed the absolute reliability and the Standard Error of Measurement (SEM) and the Minimum Detectable Change at 95% confidence interval (MDC 95% ) were established. The Greek Mini-BESTest (Mini-BESTest GR ) was correlated with the Greek Berg Balance Scale (BBS GR ) for assessing the concurrent validity and with the Timed Up and Go (TUG), the Functional Reach Test (FRT) and the Greek Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I GR ) for the convergent validity. The exceptionally high reliability and the equally good validity of the Mini-BESTest GR , strongly support its utility in Greek people with chronic stroke. Its ability to identify clinically meaningful changes and falls risk need further investigation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In numerous studies it was found that one of the main risk factors for falling is at least one previous fall [13,25]. Fear of falling is claimed by 29-92% of the elderly who had one or more falls [26].…”

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Fear of falling

Stojanović¹,

Kocić²,

Balov³

et al. 2015

Praxis Med

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Fear of falling (FOF) is a significant health problem that can be present in the elderly, both in those that had experienced falling and in those that hadn`t. The aim of the study was to establish correlation of FOF with the following characteristics of the participants: sex, age, education, marital status and the number of falls in the previous year. Performed from October to December 2014, the research included 100 participants from general population older than 65 and covered by health visiting service of Dom Zdravlja Nis. The questionnaire for assessment of FOF -Falls Efficacy Scale (FES) and the epidemiological questionnaire were used in all participants. We established that there is statistically significant difference of FES values (hi-kvadrat=7.668, p<0.05) between different age groups. It was found that median value of FES questionnaire is statistically significantly higher in participants living as singles in relation to those living in a community (U=828.0, p<0.05). There is satistically significant medium correlation between FES values and the number of falls in the previous year (r=0.661, p<0.01). This research established that FOF is associated with age and the number of falls in the previous year, that implies the need for prevention of FOF, especially in elder people and in people that experienced one or more falls. Implementation of prevention is also important in people living alone because FOF is excessive in their case.

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Cross-cultural validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I) in Greek community-dwelling older adults

Abstract: The Greek FES-I was valid, reliable, comprehensible and acceptable for the sample tested and may thus, be used in cross-cultural rehabilitation research and practice.

Cited by 56 publications

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Is there a relationship between short FES-I test scores and objective assessment of balance in the older people with age-induced instability?

Is there a relationship between short FES-I test scores and objective assessment of balance in the older people with age-induced instability?

Reliability, validity and minimal detectable change of the Mini-BESTest in Greek participants with chronic stroke

Fear of falling

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