Socio-demographic, health-related and psychosocial correlates of fear of falling and avoidance of activity in community-living older persons who avoid activity due to fear of falling

BACKGROUND: Fear of falling and avoidance of activity are common in old age and are suggested to be (public) health problems of equal importance to falls. Earlier studies of correlates of fear of falling and avoidance of activity did hardly differentiate between severe and mild levels of fear of fal...

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Autores principales: Kempen, Gertrudis IJM, van Haastregt, Jolanda CM, McKee, Kevin J, Delbaere, Kim, Zijlstra, GA Rixt
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19490640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-170

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19490640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-170

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