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Validation of a New Scale of Balance Recovery Confidence for Community-dwelling Older Adults

NCT04577365 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2021-11-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Introduction: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) provide clinicians with a greater understanding of patients' perceived ability in their physical performance. Existing PROMs on falls efficacy provide meaningful information about the perceived ability in older people to perform common activities of daily living without falling. However, the perceived ability to recover the balance from a slip, a trip, or volitional movements has been inadequately assessed. Balance recovery confidence relates to the judgement of self-reactive ability. The scale of balance recovery confidence (BRC) is a new PROM that measures perceived balance recovery self-efficacy. The purpose of the study protocol is to describe the first psychometric evaluation of BRC's measurement properties.

Methods and analysis: This study is a validation phase of a newly developed PROM conducted in Singapore. Two hundred community-dwelling older adults, aged 65 years and older, will complete five self-reported instruments (BRC), Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC), Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument-Function (LLDI-F) and Global Perceived Effect (GPE) and three performance measures (Hand strength dynamometer, 30-second Chair Stand, Mini BESTest). Classical test theory methods will assess acceptability, data completeness, targeting of the items, scaling assumptions, internal consistency reliability and construct validity. Factor analysis will establish unidimensionality. Rasch analysis will evaluate item fit, differential item functioning, response scale ordering, targeting of persons and items and the reliability.

Conditions

  • Fall
  • Self Efficacy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Singapore Institute of Technology

    collaborator OTHER

  • Queen Margaret University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shawn Soh · Singapore Institute of Technology

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-02-22
Primary Completion
2022-10-31
Completion
2022-12-31

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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