Validity and Reliability Testing of the Fall Prevention Self-Efficacy Scale

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  • SOYANO Ayako
    School of Health Sciences, Shinshu University of School of Medicine
  • MURASHIMA Sachiyo
    Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
  • MUTOH Yoshiteru
    Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

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  • 転倒予防自己効力感尺度の信頼性・妥当性の検討
  • テントウ ヨボウ ジコ コウリョクカン シャクド ノ シンライセイ ダトウセイ ノ ケントウ

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This study aimed to develop the Fall Prevention Self-Efficacy Scale (FPSE) that a scale to measure the fears of falling that elderly people in the community feel in daily life, and to verify its reliability and appropriateness. With repeating trial from item pool based interviews with local elderly with fear of falling, FPSE that including 10 items. With this scale, we measured 400 of community elderly and achieved the following results:<br>With consciousness of the behavior which elderly people in the community feel a fear of falling, we could measure a fall prevention self-efficacy of the people who keep wide field of activity with their fear of falling.<br>The reliability and appropriateness of the scale was secured in principle.<br>Many of the people with deficit answer had poor functional capacity, and it suggested that we have to make use of deficit answer as information in the community care.

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