The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Fear-related avoidance of activities, falls and physical frailty. A prospective community-based cohort study
Open accessAbstract
OBJECTIVE: to investigate the relationship between fear-related avoidance of activities and physical frailty. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: fear-related avoidance of activities, physical performance, maximal isometric muscle strength and postural control were assessed in 225 community-living elderly (94 men and 131 women), aged between 61 and 92 years of age. RESULTS: bivariate analyses revealed significant correlations between avoidance of activities on the one hand, and physical performance, muscle strength, forward endpoint excursion of the centre of gravity, and previous falls on the other hand. Logistic regression analysis revealed that fear of falling and avoidance of activities in daily life were predictive of falls within a 1-year follow-up, together with general fear of falling, old age and being female. CONCLUSIONS: fear-related avoidance of activities may have negative effects on physical abilities and may also be predictive for future falls. Avoidance of activities is therefore an important additional psychological variable in the development of physical frailty and falling in community-living elderly.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Strength is a major factor in balance, gait, and the occurrence of falls
Fukagawa, N. K., Wolfson, L., Judge, J., Whipple, R., & King, M. (1995) · The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences · doi:10.1093/gerona/50a.special_issue.64 · Cited by 617
Cited by
Fear of falling: measurement strategy, prevalence, risk factors and consequences among older persons
Scheffer, A. C., Schuurmans, M. J., van Dijk, N., van der Hooft, T., & de Rooij, S. E. (2008) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afm169 · Cited by 1,451
The Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I). A comprehensive longitudinal validation study
Delbaere, K., Close, J. C. T., Mikolaizak, A. S., Sachdev, P. S., Brodaty, H., & Lord, S. R. (2010) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afp225 · Cited by 852
Self-citationSisFall: A Fall and Movement Dataset
Sucerquia, A., López, J., & Vargas-Bonilla, J. (2017) · Sensors · doi:10.3390/s17010198 · Cited by 530
The prevalence of anxiety in older adults: Methodological issues and a review of the literature
Bryant, C., Jackson, H., & Ames, D. (2008) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2007.11.008 · Cited by 511
Older people's views of advice about falls prevention: a qualitative study
Yardley, L. (2005) · Health Education Research · doi:10.1093/her/cyh077 · Cited by 332
Metadata
- Authors
- Delbaere, K.
- Venue
- Age and Ageing
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-04-13
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 368-373
- ISSN
- 0002-0729 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2834
- OpenAlex
- W2168891771
- Cited by
- 685
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 35.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Fear-related avoidance of activities, falls and physical frailty. A prospective community-based cohort study. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/ageing/afh106
- The paper
- Delbaere, K. (2004). Fear-related avoidance of activities, falls and physical frailty. A prospective community-based cohort study. Age and Ageing. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afh106
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
