Gait Speed as a Screening Tool for Foot Pain and the Risk of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7481277/" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7481277/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S260931" target="_blank" >10.2147/CIA.S260931</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gait Speed as a Screening Tool for Foot Pain and the Risk of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

Original language description

Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to establish a gait speed cut-off value to predict foot pain and the risk of falls among community-dwelling older adults. Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, one-hundred and twenty White older women speaking Croatian (mean +/- SD age 71.02 +/- 6.78 years, height 161.77 +/- 6.23 cm, weight 70.29 +/- 12.97 kg, body mass index 26.79 +/- 4.42 kg/m2) were recruited. The prevalence of foot pain was assessed by a single-item question and the risk of falls by the Downtown Fall Risk Index with a proposed cut-off value of "low risk" (&lt;3 points) vs "high risk" (&gt;= 3 points) of falls. Self-selected gait speed (the independent variable) was estimated with a pressure platform (Zebris Company, Munich, Germany). Results: Mean gait speed was 0.95 m/s. Of the total sample, 53.30% and 33.30% reported foot pain and had higher risk of falls. For foot pain and the risk of falls, gait speed cut-off values were 0.88 m/s and 0.85 m/s (area under the curve = 0.80 and 0.83, standard error = 0.043 and 0.043, p &lt; 0.001). Sensitivity for foot pain and the risk of falls was 66.20% and 85.90% and specificity was 84.80% and 69.00%. Slower gait speed was associated with higher prevalence of foot pain (OR = 10.92, 95% CI 4.28 to 27.89, p &lt; 0.001) and higher risk of falls (OR = 13.59, 95% CI 5.45 to 33.87, p &lt; 0.001). Conclusion: Proposed gait speed values of 0.88 m/s and 0.85 m/s may be used in clinical settings to predict foot pain and the risk of falls among community-dwelling older women.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Clinical Interventions in Aging

ISSN

1178-1998

e-ISSN

1178-1998

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September 2020

Country of publishing house

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1569-1574

UT code for WoS article

000569480000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090364961