Turkish Version of Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire

T.C. ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear; Older People; Fall

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire administration

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04019587

OrduU5

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planned to translate the Fear of Falling Avoidance Behaviour Questionnaire (FFABQ) into Turkish and to assess the psychometric properties (validity, reliability, responsiveness, floor and ceiling effect) of this Turkish version.

Full description

The permission for the Turkish version was received by Landers. The translation will be made according to Beaton et al. guidelines. The internal reliability of the FFABQ Türkish version will be assessed using Cronbach's alpha, and item analyses will be conducted by examining the effect on Cronbach's alpha of excluding each of the six FOG-Q items individually. The test-retest reliability will be assessed using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC).

Convergent validity will be evaluated by means of Spearman rank correlation coefficient (rs). In this section will be determined the correlation between the Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale and visual analog scale for fear of falling.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having good cognitive functions (Standardized Mini Mental Test score of 24 and above)
• To be able to live independently in the community,
• to voluntarily participate

Exclusion criteria

• The use of drugs that may affect balance
• Polypharmacy status
• Having serious musculoskeletal or neurological disorders,
• Lower or upper limb amputation that may affect balance.

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

Test of reliability and validity

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire administration