Publicación: CONNECTION BETWEEN COMPETENCE, USABILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND RISK OF FALLS IN ELDERLY ADULTS
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2015
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Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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OBJECTIVE: TO DETERMINE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COMPETENCE, USABILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND RISK OF FALLS IN ELDERLY ADULTS.
METHOD: CORRELATIONAL DESCRIPTIVE STUDY, 123 ELDERLY ADULTS, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, AGED 70 YEARS AND OLDER WERE INCLUDED. DATA WAS COLLECTED VIA THE TINETTI SCALE, CESD-7 SCALE, MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT, USABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE ON HOUSING AND HOUSING ENABLER; AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH BACKGROUND CERTIFICATE DATA. FOR DATA ANALYSIS, DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS WERE USED, MULTIVARIATE LINEAR AND LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS WERE ADJUSTED.
RESULTS: 42.0% OF THE ELDERLY ADULTS HAD PRESENTED WITH FALLS, WITH A HIGHER PREVALENCE IN WOMEN, AND IN THE GROUP OF 70-75 YEARS. THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE HOUSE, GAIT, AND USABILITY WERE SET AS RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS. A NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USABILITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, COGNITIVE HEALTH, BALANCE, GAIT, THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT WAS FOUND, P
