Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Shawn Leng-Hsien Soh, Judith Lane, Tianma Xu, Nigel Gleeson, Chee Wee Tan
Summary: The content validity of instruments used to measure falls efficacy in community-dwelling older adults is understudied, while structural validity is sufficient for some widely-used tools. Measuring balance confidence is a subset of falls efficacy, and further research is needed to investigate a broader construct for falls efficacy.
Article
Gerontology
Edmund C. Ickert, Tiffany Hughes, Cara A. Berg-Carramusa, Shannon Dudash, Lucy Kearns
Summary: This study aimed to explore the association between subjective balance confidence and fall risk in older adults. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted on 155 community-dwelling adults (60+ y/o) from 2016 to 2018 who completed a STEADI fall assessment. The results showed that among adults who overestimated balance confidence, 55.6% reported a fall in the past year, 62.2% were worried about falling, 48.9% felt unsteady when standing/walking, and 70.0% had a score of ≥4 on the Stay Independent Questionnaire (SIQ). The physical performance of these adults indicated potential fall risk.
JOURNAL OF AGING AND HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mariana Wingood, Elizabeth Peterson, Christopher Neville, Jennifer L. Vincenzo
Summary: This study developed a screening tool for identifying feet- and footwear-related influences on fall risk among community-dwelling older adults. The tool was evaluated and refined in two phases, resulting in a 20-item screening tool with high face and content validity.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Toby J. Ellmers, Mark R. Wilson, Meriel Norris, William R. Young
Summary: This study provides insight into the development and consequences of worries about falling in older people. It highlights the importance of considering an individual's perception of control in relation to worries about falling. Depending on whether the individual perceives control over the subject of their worries, worries can lead to either protective adaptations to behavior or unhelpful changes in behavior.
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Rebecca J. Tarbert, Junhong Zhou, Brad Manor
Summary: Passive wearables, active wearables, and compliant flooring show promise in reducing fall-related hip injuries in older adults, but limited real-world data and challenges need to be addressed.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Rehabilitation
R. H. A. Weijer, M. J. M. Hoozemans, J. H. van Dieen, M. Pijnappels
Summary: This study performed a cross-cultural adaptation of the mGES into Dutch and investigated its construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and floor and ceiling effects. The Dutch mGES was found to have excellent construct validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability. However, caution is needed when evaluating confident older adults as there was a ceiling effect observed in some participants.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2022)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Youngwook Kim, Michael N. Vakula, David A. E. Bolton, Christopher J. Dakin, Brennan J. Thompson, Timothy A. Slocum, Masaru Teramoto, Eadric Bressel
Summary: This study reviewed and evaluated the comparative effectiveness of various exercise-based interventions on reactive balance in older adults, and found that task-specific reactive balance exercise could be the optimal intervention for improving reactive balance in older adults.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Jennifer Blackwood, Kateri Rybicki
Summary: This study examined the reliability, validity, and measurement error of balance confidence and fall-related self-efficacy measures in older breast cancer survivors. Findings showed good absolute reliability for the ABC measures, moderate test-retest reliability for the MFES, and construct validity for all measures. Breast cancer survivors' balance confidence should be assessed using the ABC or ABC-6, while falls self-efficacy should be examined with the MFES.
REHABILITATION NURSING
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Jennifer Blackwood, Kateri Rybicki
Summary: The study found good reliability for the ABC and ABC-6 measures of balance confidence in older breast cancer survivors, and moderate reliability for the MFES measure of falls self-efficacy. Additionally, all measures demonstrated good construct validity in this population.
REHABILITATION NURSING
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Larissa Donatoni da Silva, Agnes Shiel, Caroline McIntosh
Summary: Pilates may be effective in decreasing the risk of falls in older adults. Pilates intervention was found to improve functional mobility, mobility, gait, fear of falling and postural stability and therefore there is some evidence to suggest that Pilates reduces certain risk factors for falls in healthy older adults. However, there is an absence of high-quality evidence in regards to the impact of Pilates on reducing falls and further robust RCTs are needed.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Inbal Paran, Hadas Nachmani, Moti Salti, Ilan Shelef, Itshak Melzer
Summary: This study examines the effect of concurrent cognitive task on older adults' balance recovery stepping abilities from unannounced lateral perturbations while walking. The results show that cognitive load does not significantly affect balance recovery reactions in older adults, suggesting a posture first strategy. However, trade-offs between cognitive and postural performances were identified.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Alex Bacadini Franca, Gail Low, Gerson de Souza Santos, Rafael da Costa Serafim, Luciano Magalhaes Vitorino
Summary: This study confirmed the validity and reliability of both the 16-item FES-I and the abbreviated Short FES-I within a Brazilian context, suggesting that they are equally valid and reliable measures that can be used by researchers and healthcare professionals.
Article
Biophysics
Arian Vistamehr, Richard R. Neptune
Summary: Older adults exhibit poorer mediolateral balance control compared to younger adults during walking, as indicated by a significantly higher range of frontal-plane angular momentum. This difference is attributed to wider foot placement and higher hip abduction moment in older adults, emphasizing the importance of proper weight transfer mechanisms and hip abductor force production for maintaining mediolateral balance.
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Shani Batcir, Omri Lubovsky, Yaacov G. Bachner, Itshak Melzer
Summary: This study aims to investigate a new perturbation-based balance training program, which provides perturbations during hands-free bicycling in a sitting position to improve reactive balance responses among pre-frail older adults, and assess if this can transfer to reduce fall risks and enhance balance function.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Matheus Almeida Souza, Daniel Goble, Paige Arney, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Gabriela Silveira-Nunes, Leonardo Intelangelo, Michelle Almeida Barbosa, Alexandre Carvalho Barbosa
Summary: This study aimed to characterize the risk of falling in older adults from South and North America using a portable force-plate. South American women showed better balance compared to other groups. No significant differences were found between North vs. South Americans, nor between males and females.
Article
Biophysics
Brittany Balsamo, Mark D. Geil, Rebecca Ellis, Jianhua Wu
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
(2018)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Maria Kosma, Rebecca Ellis, Jeremy J. Bauer
DISABILITY AND HEALTH JOURNAL
(2012)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Rebecca Ellis, Maria Kosma, Sarah Agnew, Jeremy J. Bauer
DISABILITY AND HEALTH JOURNAL
(2019)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ashlee Davis, Ryan Sweigart, Rebecca Ellis
TRANSLATIONAL BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Duke D. Biber, Ken Rice, Rebecca Ellis
Summary: The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-compassion intervention within an existing workplace physical activity program. The results showed that there was no significant impact of the self-compassion intervention in the short term, but participants engaged in physical activity above the recommended levels on a weekly basis.
WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rebecca Ellis, Colleen Saringer, Ashlee Davis, Duke Biber, David A. Ferrer
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of Wellness Champions' fidelity in implementing Desire2Move on program effectiveness, finding that high fidelity teams reported significantly higher program satisfaction and average PA minutes compared to low fidelity teams.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH PROMOTION
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rebecca Ellis, Colleen Saringer, Ashlee Davis, Duke Biber, David A. Ferrer
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH PROMOTION
(2020)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ashlee Davis, Rebecca Ellis
Review
Psychology, Clinical
David D. Biber, Rebecca Ellis
JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
David A. Ferrer, Rebecca Ellis
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & HEALTH
(2017)
Article
Gerontology
Antonius Skipper, Rebecca Ellis
JOURNAL OF APPLIED GERONTOLOGY
(2015)
Article
Gerontology
Rebecca Ellis, M. Elaine Cress, Robert H. Wood, Margaret Schenkman
TOPICS IN GERIATRIC REHABILITATION
(2015)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rebecca Ellis, Maria Kosma, Danielle Symons Downs
HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR
(2013)
Article
Gerontology
Rebecca Ellis, Maria Kosma, Jennifer M. Fabre, Delilah S. Moore, Robert H. Wood
Article
Gerontology
Katie E. Cherry, Erin Jackson Walker, Jennifer Silva Brown, Julia Volaufova, Lynn R. LaMotte, David A. Welsh, L. Joseph Su, S. Michal Jazwinski, Rebecca Ellis, Robert H. Wood, Madlyn I. Frisard
JOURNAL OF APPLIED GERONTOLOGY
(2013)