Effectiveness of a home-based cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in community-dwelling, frail older people: results of a randomized controlled trial

Table 5 Effects of the Home-Based Cognitive Behavioral Program on Fall Outcomes

	Control group		Intervention group		Model^a	P- value
	n = 180		n = 166		Model^a	P- value
	n	(%)	n	(%)	OR (95 % CI)	P
Fallers
Baseline until 12-month follow-up	106	(58.9)	94	(56.6)	0.79 (0.50–1.23)	.292
Recurrent fallers
Baseline until 12-month follow-up	67	(37.2)	55	(33.1)	0.67 (0.41–1.09)	.104
	Number^b		Number^b		IRR (95 % CI)	P
Total falls	429		362		0.86 (0.65–1.13)	.273
Indoor falls	291		2		0.68 (0.50–0.92)	.014
Outdoor	138		160		1.11 (0.78–1.56)	.568
No. of times medical attention required as a result of falls	87		106		1.42 (0.96–2.10)	.083

Results of mixed-effects logistic and negative binomial regression analyses
95 % CI = 95 % confidence interval; OR = odds ratio mixed-effects logistics regression; IRR = incidence rate ratio obtained via negative binomial regression
^aModel adjusted for baseline score measurement and level of concerns about falls, age, gender, perceived general health, and falls in the past 6 months
^bAnalyses were performed with a Poisson distribution. This distribution of fall events accounts for over dispersion and incorporates both number of falls and time (weeks) of follow-up; herefore, all available data was used

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