Determinants of Balance Confidence in Community-Dwelling Elderly People

Physical Therapy

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1072-1079

  Hatch, Janine ^a,b   Gill Body, Kathleen M ^c,d   Portney, Leslie G ^c  

^a HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b MGH Institute of Health Professions ^*  (United States)

^c MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Balance confidence; Falling; Fear of falling; Geriatric

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT T TEST; VARIANCE;

EID: 0345447015     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/83.12.1072     Document Type: Article

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