The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Development and initial validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I)
Open accessAbstract
BACKGROUND: There is a need for a measure of fear of falling that assesses both easy and difficult physical activities and social activities and is suitable for use in a range of languages and cultural contexts, permitting direct comparison between studies and populations in different countries and settings. OBJECTIVE: To develop a modified version of the Falls Efficacy Scale to satisfy this need, and to establish its psychometric properties, reliability, and concurrent validity (i.e. that it demonstrates the expected relationship with age, falls history and falls risk factors). DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Community sample. METHOD: 704 people aged between 60 and 95 years completed The Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) either in postal self-completion format or by structured interview. RESULTS: The FES-I had excellent internal and test-retest reliability (Cronbach's alpha=0.96, ICC=0.96). Factor analysis suggested a unitary underlying factor, with two dimensions assessing concern about less demanding physical activities mainly in the home, and concern about more demanding physical activities mainly outside the home. The FES-I had slightly better power than the original FES items to discriminate differences in concern about falling between groups differentiated by sex, age, occupation, falls in the past year, and falls risk factors (chronic illness, taking multiple or psychoactive medications, dizziness). CONCLUSIONS: The FES-I has close continuity with the best existing measure of fear of falling, excellent psychometric properties, and assesses concerns relating to basic and more demanding activities, both physical and social. Further research is required to confirm cross-cultural and predictive validity.
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
Wolf, S. L., Barnhart, H. X., Kutner, N. G., McNeely, E., Coogler, C., Xu, T., & Atlanta FICSIT Group (1996) · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1996.tb01432.x · Cited by 1,142
Cited by
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative
Montero-Odasso, M., van der Velde, N., Martin, F. C., Petrovic, M., Tan, M. P., Ryg, J., Aguilar-Navarro, S., Alexander, N. B., Becker, C., Blain, H., et al. (2022) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afac205 · Cited by 1,756
Self-citationConradsson, D., Löfgren, N., Nero, H., Hagströmer, M., Ståhle, A., Lökk, J., & Franzén, E. (2015) · Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · doi:10.1177/1545968314567150 · Cited by 205
Schwenk, M., Mohler, J., Wendel, C., D''Huyvetter, K., Fain, M., Taylor-Piliae, R., & Najafi, B. (2015) · Gerontology · doi:10.1159/000369095 · Cited by 184
Toosizadeh, N., Mohler, J., Lei, H., Parvaneh, S., Sherman, S., & Najafi, B. (2015) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124763 · Cited by 117
El-Khoury, F., Cassou, B., Latouche, A., Aegerter, P., Charles, M.-A., & Dargent-Molina, P. (2015) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.h3830 · Cited by 121
Courel-Ibáñez, J., Buendía-Romero, Á., Pallarés, J. G., García-Conesa, S., Martínez-Cava, A., & Izquierdo, M. (2022) · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2021.05.037 · Cited by 62
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Parkinson’s Disease
Reynolds, G. O., Saint-Hilaire, M., Thomas, C. A., Barlow, D. H., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2020) · Behavior Modification · doi:10.1177/0145445519838828 · Cited by 59
Predictive value of stabilometry and fear of falling on falls in postmenopausal women
Hita-Contreras, F., Martínez-Amat, A., Lomas-Vega, R., Álvarez, P., Aránega, A., Martínez-López, E., & Mendoza, N. (2013) · Climacteric · doi:10.3109/13697137.2012.733464 · Cited by 40
Dissociated motor learning and de-adaptation in patients with functional gait disorders
Lin, D., Castro, P., Edwards, A., Sekar, A., Edwards, M. J., Coebergh, J., Bronstein, A. M., & Kaski, D. (2020) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awaa190 · Cited by 38
Primary biliary cirrhosis is associated with falls and significant fall related injury
Frith, J., Kerr, S., Robinson, L., Elliott, C., Ghazala, C., Wilton, K., Pairman, J., Jones, D. E. J., & Newton, J. L. (2010) · QJM · doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp188 · Cited by 21
Howes, S. C., Charles, D., Pedlow, K., Wilson, I., Holmes, D., & McDonough, S. (2019) · Journal of Enabling Technologies · doi:10.1108/jet-12-2018-0057 · Cited by 18
Whipple, M. O., Schorr, E. N., Talley, K. M. C., Wolfson, J., Lindquist, R., Bronas, U. G., & Treat-Jacobson, D. (2020) · Annals of Vascular Surgery · doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2020.03.040 · Cited by 18
Dynapenic abdominal obesity as a risk factor for falls in older women
Pereira, J. C., de Moraes Elias, J., Neri, S. G. R., Gadelha, A. B., Lemos, R. R., & Lima, R. M. (2019) · Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation · doi:10.1097/tgr.0000000000000225 · Cited by 15
O’Malley, N., Coote, S., Staunton, F. M., O’Connor, E., & Clifford, A. M. (2023) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0294193 · Cited by 13
Metadata
- Authors
- Yardley, L., Beyer, N., Hauer, K., Kempen, G., Piot-Ziegler, C., & Todd, C.
- Venue
- Age and Ageing
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2005-11-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 614-619
- ISSN
- 0002-0729 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2834
- OpenAlex
- W2100959123
- Cited by
- 2,066
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 32.28
- 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
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.
