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Cross Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Urdu Version of Fall Risk Questionnaire

NCT06687031 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2024-11-13

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Summary

Fall is an event that result a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level. Fall and fall related injuries are very common in older population. Fall can cause potentially life threatening events that can lead to hospitalization and increase cost and burden on society and even lead to the death. Several tools are use for fall risk assessment but in current study we will use fall risk questionnaire that is translated in many languages that is Arabic, Persian, Brazil Turkish and Chinese but no study has translated the fall risk questionnaire into Urdu language. The objective of current study is to translate the fall risk questionnaire into Urdu to determine its reliability and validity in Urdu speaking older population of Pakistan. .

The study will be cross sectional in which original English version of questionnaire will be translated into Urdu language using five steps as described by beaten. The study will be conducted at Service hospital Lahore and Mian Munshi District Head Quarter hospital Lahore. In this study sample size of 120 participants is calculated based on previously published guidelines and according to previously described inclusion and exclusion criteria individuals with age 65 or above 65 who can speak and understand urdu will be included and individuals with any neurological or orthopedic problem that disturb their walking and balance will be excluded. For data collection two physiotherapist (assessor A and assessor B) will examine the enrolled individual separately using fall risk questionnaire, time up and go test, berg balance scale, 5 times sit to stand test and the assessor B will conduct examination 2 hours later to check the inter rater reliability .To determine the intra rater reliability assessor A will again conduct the examination after 7 to 10 days. After collection of data the statistical data analysis will be performed of the collected data using SPSS version 21 with p value will be set to be statistically significant at 0.05 to check the reliability and validity of the Urdu version of fall risk questionnaire. Pearson r will show the co relation of fall risk questionnaire with Berg balance scale, time up and Go test and five times sit to stand test and cronbach's value will show the internal consistency and interclass correlation coefficient ICC will assess the test retest reliability of fall risk questionnaire.

Conditions

  • Older People

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Muhammad Kashif Shaffi, PhD-PT · Riphah International University

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-10
Primary Completion
2025-07-30
Completion
2025-07-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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