Fall-risk assessment in the elderly using the persian version of fall-risk screening tool: A population-based study

Objective: to assess the effectiveness of using an educational video in comparison with verbal nursing guidelines in increasing older adults’ perception of falling risks. Method: this is a randomized clinical trial in a cluster, with 138 community older adults, randomized into an intervention group, which watched an educational video, and a control group, which received verbal instructions. The perception of falling risks was assessed by FRAQ-Brazil in the pre-test and after a 30-day follow-up. Student’s t-test was used for dependent samples to compare intragroup means and for independent samples to compare intergroup means. The effect size was determined by Cohen’s d. Results: in the intragroup analysis, intervention and control groups had an increase in perception, with a statistically significant difference between pre-and post-tests. In the intergroup analysis, the control group showed a greater increase in the perception of falling risks in relation to the intervention group (p = 0.013), with Cohen’s d of small effect. Conclusion: the use of an educational video and verbal instructions increased older adults’ perception of falling risks, with better results in the control group. However, the effect size was small. RBR-8nfggd.

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Effectiveness of an educational video in older adults’ perception about falling risks: a randomized clinical trial

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Santos

Carvalho

et al. 2022

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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The Relationship between Cognitive Status and Retained Activity Participation among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Adelirad

Salimi

Dianat

et al. 2022

EJIHPE

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Identifying retained activity participation to old age can improve age-related changes in balance and cognition function. Subjects ≥ 60 years were enrolled in this study. Balance and Cognitive function include working memory, executive function, and sustained and divided attention was evaluated with “Fullerton advanced balance”, “n-back”, “Wisconsin card sort”, “sustain and divided attention test”, respectively. In addition, retained activity participation was measured using the Activity Card Sort questionnaire. The univariate and multivariate regression analyses of different domains of retained activity participation were used as independent variables, including instrumental activity, low-effort leisure, high-effort leisure, and social activity on balance and specific domains of cognition. Seventy-seven subjects (65.3 ± 4.4 years, 61% female) were included. About 47% of older adults had a college education, 32.3% had a diploma, and 20.7% had elementary–middle education. These results show that retained instrumental activity had a relationship with working memory (β = 0.079, p < 0.05). In addition, we found that retained high-effort leisure activity can increase balance, divided attention, and executive function score (β = 0.1, β = 0.05, β = 0.02, p < 0.05). Moreover, there was a positive relationship between retained low-effort activity and sustained attention (β = 0.08, p < 0.05). In addition, the coefficient of determination (R2) for balance, working memory, executive function, sustained, and divided attention were 0.45, 0.25, 0.13, 0.11 and 0.18, respectively. The study suggests that retained activity participation types may have various effects on balance and some selective cognitive components in older people.

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Fall-risk assessment in the elderly using the persian version of fall-risk screening tool: A population-based study

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Effectiveness of an educational video in older adults’ perception about falling risks: a randomized clinical trial

Effectiveness of an educational video in older adults’ perception about falling risks: a randomized clinical trial

The Relationship between Cognitive Status and Retained Activity Participation among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

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