Fall Injury Avoidance Strategy Scale (FIAS) - Development and Validation of a Scale to Quantify Fall-Related Protective Movements.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop and validate the Fall Injury Avoidance Scale (FIAS), a novel video-screening tool to assess protective movements and injury risk during standing-height falls among older adults.

Design

Secondary analysis of video-recorded experimental falls.

Setting

Laboratory setting.

Participant

Twenty-three older adults (aged 66-84 years; 4 males, 19 females) at risk of injurious falls.

Intervention

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

Participants experienced a total of six standardized experimentally-induced (backwards, left, and right directions). Fall movements were recorded using a motion capture system and commercially-available cameras. Hip and head peak acceleration were extracted from custom MatLab scripts. FIAS score (sum of 4 e

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12330437 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature