A short-form fall-risk screening tool for community- dwelling

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 99 === Through application of a short-form fall-risk screening tool for community-dwelling elderly people, this study aims to carry out fall-risk screening for community-dwelling elderly people and discuss its reliability and validity so that the best cut-off poin...

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Main Authors: Chang, Yu-Fen, 張毓芬
Other Authors: Guo, Jong-Long
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06064946420685525756
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spelling ndltd-TW-099NTNU55710922015-10-19T04:03:41Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06064946420685525756 A short-form fall-risk screening tool for community- dwelling 跌倒風險篩檢簡表應用於社區中老年人之研究 Chang, Yu-Fen 張毓芬 碩士 國立臺灣師範大學 健康促進與衛生教育學系 99 Through application of a short-form fall-risk screening tool for community-dwelling elderly people, this study aims to carry out fall-risk screening for community-dwelling elderly people and discuss its reliability and validity so that the best cut-off point can be determined and the community-dwelling elderly people with fall risk can be identified. The research subjects are 669 elderly people who are over 50 years of age from 29 communities’ life-saving and anti-fall classes in Taiwan. The short-form fall-risk screening tool in this study has 14 questions with score between 0 and 14; the higher score represents higher probability of falling. The research results show that the short-form fall-risk screening tool’s reliability test has good internal consistency. It is able to effectively predict the falling group and non-falling group. The score of 4 is the best cut-off point with sensitivity and specificity. With the application of repeat falling case, both sensitivity and specificity are over 70% for score between 4 and 6. If we use the score of 4 or 5 as cut-off point, the sensitivity is over 90%; however, the score of 5 has higher specificity with 84.68%. For the purpose of reducing assessment or inspection manpower, the cut-off point can be increased to score of 6, with sensitivity of 70% and high specificity of 88.5%. The tool used in this study is easy to operate and it can help the health and care professionals to identify the high fall-risk group in a timely manner so that it is also conductive to the promotion of public health. Guo, Jong-Long 郭鐘隆 2011 學位論文 ; thesis 60 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 99 === Through application of a short-form fall-risk screening tool for community-dwelling elderly people, this study aims to carry out fall-risk screening for community-dwelling elderly people and discuss its reliability and validity so that the best cut-off point can be determined and the community-dwelling elderly people with fall risk can be identified. The research subjects are 669 elderly people who are over 50 years of age from 29 communities’ life-saving and anti-fall classes in Taiwan. The short-form fall-risk screening tool in this study has 14 questions with score between 0 and 14; the higher score represents higher probability of falling. The research results show that the short-form fall-risk screening tool’s reliability test has good internal consistency. It is able to effectively predict the falling group and non-falling group. The score of 4 is the best cut-off point with sensitivity and specificity. With the application of repeat falling case, both sensitivity and specificity are over 70% for score between 4 and 6. If we use the score of 4 or 5 as cut-off point, the sensitivity is over 90%; however, the score of 5 has higher specificity with 84.68%. For the purpose of reducing assessment or inspection manpower, the cut-off point can be increased to score of 6, with sensitivity of 70% and high specificity of 88.5%. The tool used in this study is easy to operate and it can help the health and care professionals to identify the high fall-risk group in a timely manner so that it is also conductive to the promotion of public health.
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