Course of fear of falling after hip fracture: findings from a 12-month inception cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the course of fear of falling (FoF) up to 1 year after hip fracture, including the effect of prefracture FoF on the course.

Design

Observational cohort study with assessment of FoF at 6, 12 and 52 weeks after hip fracture.

Setting

Haaglanden Medical Centre, the Netherlands.

Participants

444 community-dwelling adults aged 70 years and older, admitted to hospital with a hip fracture.

Main outcome measure

Short Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I), with a cut-off score ≥11 to define elevated FoF levels.

Results

Six weeks after hip fracture the study population-based mean FES-I was located around the cut-off value of 11, and levels decreased only marginally over time. One year after fracture almost one-third of the populati

SUBMITTER: Scheffers-Barnhoorn MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016251 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature