Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program

Population ageing is taking place globally including in Malaysia. Prevalence of obesity among the elderly is also increasing worldwide. Falls among the elderly lead to morbidity, mortality and is also an economic burden. The aim of this cross sectional study was to determine the prevalence of fal...

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Main Author:	Esa, Wafaak
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	RC Internal medicine
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/41057/1/Dr._Wafaak_Esa-24_pages.pdf
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spelling	my-usm-ep.410572019-04-12T05:25:43Z Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program 2015-05 Esa, Wafaak RC Internal medicine Population ageing is taking place globally including in Malaysia. Prevalence of obesity among the elderly is also increasing worldwide. Falls among the elderly lead to morbidity, mortality and is also an economic burden. The aim of this cross sectional study was to determine the prevalence of falls among the elderly and its associated factors especially of body mass index factor among elderly who participated in a health screening program between January and December 2014 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Data were obtained from the health screening form from all government health clinics in Kota Bharu. There were 434 elderly who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A whole population sampling was employed. The descriptive and multiple logistic regression was applied to answer the objectives of the study. The results showed that the prevalence of falls among elderly who participated in the health screening program was 23.3% (95% CI 0.19, 0.27). This study demonstrated that falls was associated with obesity (OR adj 2.55, 95% CI: 1.15, 5.68; p= 0.021). Other significant associated factors of falls were age more than 80 years old (OR adj 36.14, 95% CI: 9.06, 144,13; p<0.001), being female (OR adj 0.48, 95% CI: 0.25, 0.93; p= 0.030), being employed (OR adj 0.05, 95% CI: 0.07, 0.29; p=0.001), symptoms of dizziness (OR adj 6.90, 95% CI: 1.36, 35.06; p=0.020) imbalance and instability (OR adj 11.65, 95% CI: 3,65, 37.20; p<0.001), polypharmacy (OR adj 4.18, 95% CI: 1.46, 12.00 ; p=0.008) and high waist circumference (OR adj 2.42, 95% CI: 1.22, 4.80; p=0.011). This study demonstrated that the prevalence of falls among elderly is still an issue and its associated factors especially obesity should be intervened. 2015-05 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/41057/ http://eprints.usm.my/41057/1/Dr._Wafaak_Esa-24_pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
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spellingShingle	RC Internal medicine Esa, Wafaak Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
description	Population ageing is taking place globally including in Malaysia. Prevalence of obesity among the elderly is also increasing worldwide. Falls among the elderly lead to morbidity, mortality and is also an economic burden. The aim of this cross sectional study was to determine the prevalence of falls among the elderly and its associated factors especially of body mass index factor among elderly who participated in a health screening program between January and December 2014 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Data were obtained from the health screening form from all government health clinics in Kota Bharu. There were 434 elderly who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A whole population sampling was employed. The descriptive and multiple logistic regression was applied to answer the objectives of the study. The results showed that the prevalence of falls among elderly who participated in the health screening program was 23.3% (95% CI 0.19, 0.27). This study demonstrated that falls was associated with obesity (OR adj 2.55, 95% CI: 1.15, 5.68; p= 0.021). Other significant associated factors of falls were age more than 80 years old (OR adj 36.14, 95% CI: 9.06, 144,13; p<0.001), being female (OR adj 0.48, 95% CI: 0.25, 0.93; p= 0.030), being employed (OR adj 0.05, 95% CI: 0.07, 0.29; p=0.001), symptoms of dizziness (OR adj 6.90, 95% CI: 1.36, 35.06; p=0.020) imbalance and instability (OR adj 11.65, 95% CI: 3,65, 37.20; p<0.001), polypharmacy (OR adj 4.18, 95% CI: 1.46, 12.00 ; p=0.008) and high waist circumference (OR adj 2.42, 95% CI: 1.22, 4.80; p=0.011). This study demonstrated that the prevalence of falls among elderly is still an issue and its associated factors especially obesity should be intervened.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Esa, Wafaak
author_facet	Esa, Wafaak
author_sort	Esa, Wafaak
title	Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
title_short	Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
title_full	Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
title_fullStr	Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
title_full_unstemmed	Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
title_sort	prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in kota bharu, kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department	Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
publishDate	2015
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Prevalence of falls and its associated factors among elderly in Kota Bharu, Kelantan : results from the elderly health screening program

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