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| A prospective study of the relationship between feared consequences of falling and avoidance of activity in community-living older people | | Author(s) | Lucy Yardley, Helen Smith |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 1, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 17-23 |
| Keywords | Falls ; Anxiety ; Inactivity ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; South West England. |
| Annotation | The most common beliefs concerning negative and feared consequences of falling are identified using a questionnaire, completed by 224 participants aged 75+ from the Wessex Fracture Prevention Trial. Beliefs about the consequences of falling were related to demographic characteristics, falling history, and avoidance of activity. The questionnaires were completed again by 166 participants 6 months later. Commonly feared consequences of falling were loss of functional independence and damage to identity. These fears were correlated with avoidance of activity (after adjusting for age, sex and recent falling history) and predicted avoidance in activity 6 months later (after adjusting for baseline levels of avoidance). Concerns about damage to social identity, as well as functional incapacity, are common and motivate avoidance of activity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020806201 A |
| Classmark | OLF: ENP: C5: K4: 49: 82Y |
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