Feet/Footwear-Related Fall Risk Screening Tool for Older Adults: Development and Content Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Screening for feet- and footwear-related influences on fall risk is an important component of multifactorial fall risk screenings, yet few evidence-based tools are available for this purpose. We developed the Screening Tool for Feet/Footwear-Related Influences on Fall Risk to support interprofessional health care providers in their efforts to screen for feet/footwear-related influences on fall risk among community-dwelling older adults identified at risk for falling.

Materials and methods

The study consisted of two phases. During Phase 1, results of a systematic review of lower-limb factors associated with balance and falls informed tool development. The tool's initial draft was evaluated by an external group of nine interprofessional content ex

SUBMITTER: Wingood M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847373 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature