The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System
The purpose of this study was to verify which instrument better identifies recurrent falls in the elderly. Ninety-eight old people, with an average age of 80±4 years, were submitted to an assessment of balance and fall risk by means of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the posturographic Balance Stab...
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| author | Vanessa Vieira Pereira Roberto Alcantara Maia Sonia Maria Cesar de Azevedo Silva |
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| description | The purpose of this study was to verify which instrument better identifies recurrent falls in the elderly. Ninety-eight old people, with an average age of 80±4 years, were submitted to an assessment of balance and fall risk by means of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the posturographic Balance Stability System (BSS). The BBS was correlated with the BSS (r=-0.27; p=0.008), age (r=-0.38; p<0.001) and number of falls (r=-0.25; p=0.013) and the analysis of logistical regression showed that the elderly classified with fall risk on the BBS presented 2.5 (95%CI 1.08-5.78) more chance of identifying who had two falls or more over the last year. The BBS identified that the greater the age the worse the functional balance and demonstrated a greater capacity to identify falls risk suffered over the last year when compared with the BSS. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9f501ce21e3045ccbddf0db102b030d52025-08-20T02:00:42ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272013-01-0171151010.1590/S0004-282X2013000100003S0004-282X2013000100003The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability SystemVanessa Vieira Pereira0Roberto Alcantara Maia1Sonia Maria Cesar de Azevedo Silva2Instituto de Assistência Médica ao Servidor Público EstadualUniversidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloThe purpose of this study was to verify which instrument better identifies recurrent falls in the elderly. Ninety-eight old people, with an average age of 80±4 years, were submitted to an assessment of balance and fall risk by means of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the posturographic Balance Stability System (BSS). The BBS was correlated with the BSS (r=-0.27; p=0.008), age (r=-0.38; p<0.001) and number of falls (r=-0.25; p=0.013) and the analysis of logistical regression showed that the elderly classified with fall risk on the BBS presented 2.5 (95%CI 1.08-5.78) more chance of identifying who had two falls or more over the last year. The BBS identified that the greater the age the worse the functional balance and demonstrated a greater capacity to identify falls risk suffered over the last year when compared with the BSS.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013000100003&lng=en&tlng=enequilíbrio posturalacidentes por quedasidosoavaliação geriátrica |
| spellingShingle | Vanessa Vieira Pereira Roberto Alcantara Maia Sonia Maria Cesar de Azevedo Silva The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria equilíbrio postural acidentes por quedas idoso avaliação geriátrica |
| title | The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System |
| title_full | The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System |
| title_fullStr | The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System |
| title_full_unstemmed | The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System |
| title_short | The functional assessment Berg Balance Scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic Balance Stability System |
| title_sort | functional assessment berg balance scale is better capable of estimating fall risk in the elderly than the posturographic balance stability system |
| topic | equilíbrio postural acidentes por quedas idoso avaliação geriátrica |
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