Article | Aim | Methods | Participants | Reported gender analysis |
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Whitehead et al. [43] | Investigating the reason for not taking up fall or injury prevention strategy among older people who have sustained a fall and attended an emergency department. | Structural individual interviews Results presented in counts and percentages | 60 (44 women and 16 men) community dwelling participants who attended the emergency department of a public hospital with a fall. Mean age 78 years. Country: Australia | Considerably more women than men mentioned already being active enough (women 27.3%, men 18.8%); can’t do exercises (women 22.7%, men 12.5%); and can’t leave house/spouse (women 13.3%, men 0%), as reason for reluctance to take part in exercise classes. |
Yardley et al. [46] | To determine whether threat or coping appraisal are most closely related to older people’s intention to undertake strength and balance training. | Postal survey (n. 451) and structural interviews (n.107) Structural equation modeling | 558 (397 women and 161 men) older people. Aged between 60 and 95 years, mean age 74. Country: UK | Younger respondents and women were somewhat more positive in their coping appraisal than were older respondents and men. Female gender was positively related to threat appraisal (r = .11, p = 009) and coping appraisal (r = .18, p = .001). Women were slightly less inclined than men to undertake SBT. |
Yardley et al. [47] | To determine the extent to which older people, in different sectors, are willing to engage in different falls prevention activities. | Postal survey Logistic regressions | 5440 (2846 women and 2482 men) patients from 10 general practices. Aged > 54 years. Country: UK | Substantially more women than men indicated that they were likely to attend group sessions (p < 0.001), and carry out SBT at home (p < 0.001). |
Lin et al. [32] | To explore attitudes and beliefs of Taiwanese older women regarding SBT programs and their intentions to attend such programs. | Survey Multiple linear regressions and Pearson’s correlations | 221 women recruited from college for people with a wish to learn in later life. Aged between 55 and 94 years, mean age 72. Country: Taiwan | Only women included. |
Snodgrass and Rivett [39] | To explore the views and perceptions of older people about falls and falls injury prevention services, to identify incentives and barriers to attending a falls injury prevention service. | Survey 95% confidence interval (CI) | 75 members of community groups. No experience of fall prevention exercises required. Aged between 61 and 93Â years, mean age 74. Sex not reported. Country: Australia | Statistics not reported according to gender. |
Hedley et al. [26] | To explore the reasons why the participants either did or did not adhere to an RCT intervention with both group and home exercises. | Mixed design: Qualitative: Individual interviews and one focus group Quantitative: Attendance rates, gait and balance assessments Thematic analyses and descriptive statistics | 5 community dwelling women. Participants in the Staying Steady program with 32Â weeks of group and home based exercises. Aged between 60 and 88Â years, mean age 77. Country: UK | Only women included. |
Robinson et al. [36] | To explore the process of behavior change in a small sample of older people with the fall-associated chronic liver disease primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) receiving either a standard or an enhanced program of strength and balance training. | Mixed design: Individual interviews and graphical representations of patient-reported outcomes measures (PBC-40; FES-I; SEE Scale) Critical realist paradigm of enquiry | 9 community dwelling women with PBC who participated in a 6-week or 6-month strength and balance training program. Aged between 63 and 80Â year. mean age 70Â year. Country: UK | Only women included. |