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4. Can the 1-leg standing test be replaced by self-reported balance in the first-time injurious fall screening tool?

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Frisendahl, Nathalie, Ek, Stina, Rosendahl, Erik, Franzén, Erika, Boström, Anne-Marie, and Welmer, Anna-Karin

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Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, community living, eHealth, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, subjective measurement, older adults, objective measurement
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Background and Purpose: The First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) screening tool was created to identify fall risk in community-living older men and women, who may be targets for primary preventive interventions. The FIF tool consists of 3 self-reported questions and 1 physical test (1-leg standing balance). The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive ability of the FIF tool and a modified FIF tool (in which 1-leg standing is replaced by self-reported balance) for first-time injurious falls. Methods: A cohort of 1194 community-living people 60 years and older from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K), Sweden, was followed longitudinally for 5 years. Data on injurious falls were collected from registered data and were defined as receipt of care after a fall. The predictive ability of the FIF tool and the m-FIF tool was explored using Harrell's C statistic, stratified by sex. Results and Discussion: The injurious fall rate per 1000 person-years was 54.9 (95% CI: 47.22-63.78) for women and 36.3 (95% CI: 28.84-45.78) for men. The predictive ability for women and men according to Harrell's C statistic was 0.70 and 0.71 for the FIF tool and the m-FIF tool. The predictive ability was 0.70 and 0.69 for 1-leg standing, and 0.65 and 0.60 for self-reported balance problems. Conclusions: The m-FIF tool presented similar predictive ability as the FIF tool regarding first-time injurious falls. This finding could extend the usefulness of the tool to other settings, such as to electronic health (eHealth). A quickly and easily administered screening tool can help physical therapists to identify people with a high risk of falling who may need to undergo a more comprehensive fall risk assessment.

Published
2023

5. Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults.

Author

Frisendahl, Nathalie, Ek, Stina, Rosendahl, Erik, Boström, Anne-Marie, Fagerström, Cecilia, Elmståhl, Sölve, and Welmer, Anna-Karin

Subjects
*CONFIDENCE intervals, *POSTURAL balance, *ACCIDENTAL falls, *INTERVIEWING, *LONGITUDINAL method, *RESEARCH methodology, *QUESTIONNAIRES, *RISK assessment, *INDEPENDENT living, *PROPORTIONAL hazards models, *RESEARCH methodology evaluation, *EVALUATION, *OLD age
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The First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) screening tool was created to identify fall risk in community-living older adults who may benefit from primary preventive interventions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive performance of the FIF tool in 2 cohorts of older adults. Longitudinal cohort study. The Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Skåne (SNAC-S) and Blekinge (SNAC-B), Sweden. Community-living people aged ≥60 years (n = 2766). Nurses and physicians collected data in the 2 cohorts through interviews and testing. Data on injurious falls were collected from register data and were defined as receipt of care after a fall. The FIF tool, consisting of 3 questions and 1 balance test, was examined in relation to injurious falls for up to 5 years of follow-up using Cox proportional hazards models. The predictive performance of the FIF tool was further explored using Harrell C statistic and Youden cut-off for sensitivity and specificity. The hazard ratios (HRs) of an injurious fall in the high-risk group for women and men were 3.80 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.53, 5.73) and 5.10 (95% CI 2.57, 10.12) in SNAC-S and 4.45 (95% CI 1.86, 10.61) and 32.58 (95% CI 4.30, 247.05) in SNAC-B compared with those in the low risk group. The sensitivity and specificity of the Youden cut-off point (3 or higher for high-risk) were 0.64 and 0.69 for women and 0.68 and 0.69 for men in SNAC-S, and 0.64 and 0.74 for women and 0.94 and 0.68 for men in SNAC-B. The predictive values (Harrell C statistic) for the scores for women and men were 0.73 and 0.74 in SNAC-S and 0.72 and 0.89 in SNAC-B. Our results suggest that the FIF tool is a valid tool to use for prediction of first-time injurious falls in community-living older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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