Factors associated with risk, perception and knowledge of falls in elderly people

Souza, Lidia Ferreira de; Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag; Camapanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini; Costa, Paula Cristina Pereira da; Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira; Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto

doi:10.1590/1983-1447.2022.20200335

Lidia Ferreira de Souza

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0015-1135

Ruth Ester Assayag Batista

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Clínica Cirúrgica. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6416-1079

Cássia Regina Vancini Camapanharo

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Clínica Cirúrgica. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-2674

Paula Cristina Pereira da Costa

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2764-3797

Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira Lopes

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Clínica Cirúrgica. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8989-4404

Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-1186

Corresponding author:
Name: Lidia Ferreira de Souza E-mail: lidiafs4@hotmail.com

Associate Editor:

Cecília Helena Glanzner

Editor-in-chief:

Maria da Graça Oliveira Crossetti

Authorship contributions: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Research, Methodology, Software, Writing - original draft, Writing - proofreading and editing - Lidia Ferreira de Souza, Ruth Ester Assayag Batista, Cássia Regina Vancini Camapanharo, Paula Cristina Pereira da Costa, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira Lopes, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno. Data curation - Lidia Ferreira de Souza.

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

Normality Test (Kolmogorov-Smirnov)	p-value
Age	<0.0001
Family income	<0.0001
Dependents	<0.0001
Falls Risk Awareness Questionnaire	0.009

	Falls Risk Awareness Questionnaire		p-value
	number	Median (minimum-maximum)	p-value
Level of Education*
Illiterate	21.0	21.0(10-26)	0.0109
Incomplete elementary education	77.0	21.0(12-27)
Elementary education	36.0	18.0(9-27)
High school	44.0	20.0(13-28)
Higher education	19.0	21.0(16-26)
Support network^†
No	63.0	21.0(9-28)	0.0025
Yes	134.0	19.0(10-28)
Comorbidities^†
No	6.0	18.5(10-20)	0.0496
Yes	191.0	20.0(9-28)
Impaired walking^†
No	139.0	20.0(9-28)	0.0009
Yes	58.0	22.0(13-28)
Anti-hipertensive^†
No	51.0	21.0(10-28)	0.0323
Yes	146.0	20.0(9-28)
Lipid-lowering medication^†
No	126.0	21(10-28)	0.0463
Yes	71.0	20.0(9-27)

	Morse Scale			p-value
	Low risk	Medium risk	High risk	p-value
Age*	69 (65-79) ^‡	71(65-93)^‡	73(65-88)^‡	0.0041
Family income*	998 (998-4200)^‡	1649 (998-12000)^‡	1996 (628-22000)^‡	0.0274
Dependents*	1 (0-4)^‡	2 (0-6)^‡	2 (0-12)^‡	0.0272
Caregiver^†
Yes	10 (7.50%)^§	41 (30.80%)^§	82 (61.70%)^§	<0.0001
No	21 (28.40%)^§	28 (37.80%)^§	25 (33.80%)^§
Support network^†
Yes	2 (2.90%)^§	19 (27.90%)^§	47 (69.10%)^§	0.0002
No	29 (21.20%)^§	50 (36.50%)^§	58 (42.30%)^§
Sistemic arterial hypertension^†
Yes	19 (11.90%)^§	48 (30.20%)^§	92 (57.90%)^§	0.0036
No	12 (25.00%)^§	21 (43.80%)^§	15 (31.30%)^§
Impaired walking^†
Yes	2 (3.40%)^§	13 (22.00%)^§	44 (74.60%)^§	0.0001
No	29 (19.60%)^§	56 (37.80%)^§	63 (42.60%)^§
Uses medication^†
Yes	25 (13.20%)^§	61 (32.30%)^§	103 (54.50%)^§	0.0144
No	6 (33.30%)^§	8 (44.40%)^§	4 (22.20%)^§
Antihipertensives^†
Yes	18 (11.70%)^§	45 (29.20%)^§	91 (59.10%)^§	0.0010
No	13 (24.50%)^§	24 (45.30%)^§	16 (30.20%)^§
Lipid-lowering medication^†
Yes	2 (2.70%)^§	20 (26.70%)^§	53 (70.70%)^§	<0.0001
No	29 (22.00%)^§	49 (37.10%)^§	54 (40.90%)^§

	Pain Scale				p-value
	No pain	Mild pain	Moderate pain	Severe pain	p-value
Level of education*
Illiterate	9 (40.90%)^‡	5 (22.70%)^‡	2 (9.10%)^‡	6 (27.30%)^‡	0.0032
Incomplete elementary education	18 (22.50%)^‡	14 (17.50%)^‡	25 (31.30%)^‡	23 (28.80%)^‡
Elementary education	24 (60.00%)^‡	6 (15.00%)^‡	6 (15.00%)^‡	4 (10.00%)^‡
High school	19 (42.20%)^‡	10 (22.20%)^‡	10 (22.20%)^‡	6 (13.30%)^‡
Higher education	8 (42.10%)^‡	1 (5.30%)^‡	8 (42.10%)^‡	2 (10.50%)^‡
Religion*
Yes	68 (35.80%)^‡	32 (16.80%)^‡	49 (25.80%)^‡	41 (21.60%)^‡	0.0208
No	10 (58.80%)^‡	4 (23.50%)^‡	3 (17.60%)^‡	0 (0.00%)^‡
Support network*
Yes	34 (50.00%)^‡	15 (22.10%)^‡	14 (20.60%)^‡	5 (7.40%)^‡	0.0033
No	44 (32.10%)^‡	21 (15.30%)^‡	36 (26.30%)^‡	36 (26.30%)^‡
Dependents ^†	2(0-12)^§	1(0-5)^§	2(0-6)^§	2(0-7)^§	0.0156

Escalas
Falls Risk Awareness Questionnaire	20(9-28)^‡
Morse Fall Scale
Low risk	31 (15.00%)^§
Medium risk	66 (33.30%)^§
High risk	100 (51.70%)^§
Pain scale
No pain	72 (37.70%)^§
Mild pain	33 (17.40%)^§
Moderate pain	51 (25.10%)^§
Severe pain	41 (19.80%)^§

[1] Corresponding author:
Name: Lidia Ferreira de Souza E-mail: lidiafs4@hotmail.com

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Factors associated with risk, perception and knowledge of falls in elderly people

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