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COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY
We investigated the predictors of fear of falling in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Older adults aged 60 to 85 (N=144) participated in an electronic survey that assessed their attitudes toward technology, perceived severity and fear of COVID, frailty, social engagement and falls risk. Hiera...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770539/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1082 |
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author | Chong, Wayne Lokanathan, Tharshini Yow, W Quin |
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description | We investigated the predictors of fear of falling in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Older adults aged 60 to 85 (N=144) participated in an electronic survey that assessed their attitudes toward technology, perceived severity and fear of COVID, frailty, social engagement and falls risk. Hierarchical linear regressions revealed that the fear of falling was first predicted by falls risk, beta = .26, p = .001, F(1, 142) = 10.50, then by resistance, beta = .18, p = .03, F(2, 141) = 7.96. When COVID-19 fear, beta = .14, p < .001, and health conditions, beta = -.22, p = .005, were added together, falls risk became non-significant, beta = .14, p = .083, F(4, 139) = 10.50. The interaction between COVID-19 fear and health conditions was found to add significant variance in the final model, beta = -.31, p < .001, R square = .37, R square change = .09. |
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spelling | pubmed-97705392022-12-22 COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY Chong, Wayne Lokanathan, Tharshini Yow, W Quin Innov Aging Abstracts We investigated the predictors of fear of falling in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Older adults aged 60 to 85 (N=144) participated in an electronic survey that assessed their attitudes toward technology, perceived severity and fear of COVID, frailty, social engagement and falls risk. Hierarchical linear regressions revealed that the fear of falling was first predicted by falls risk, beta = .26, p = .001, F(1, 142) = 10.50, then by resistance, beta = .18, p = .03, F(2, 141) = 7.96. When COVID-19 fear, beta = .14, p < .001, and health conditions, beta = -.22, p = .005, were added together, falls risk became non-significant, beta = .14, p = .083, F(4, 139) = 10.50. The interaction between COVID-19 fear and health conditions was found to add significant variance in the final model, beta = -.31, p < .001, R square = .37, R square change = .09. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9770539/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1082 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Chong, Wayne Lokanathan, Tharshini Yow, W Quin COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title | COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title_full | COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title_short | COVID-19 AND THE FEAR OF FALLING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN SINGAPORE: AN ELECTRONIC SURVEY |
title_sort | covid-19 and the fear of falling among older adults in singapore: an electronic survey |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770539/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1082 |
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