Table 2 Recurrent falls-pain bivariate analysis
From: Pain and recurrent falls in the older and oldest-old non-institutionalized population
Variables | 65–79 years | 80 years or older | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recurrent faller | Recurrent faller | |||||
yes | no | p | yes | no | p | |
Categorical | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Moderate-severe pain | 8 (61.54) | 46 (25.70) | < 0.01 | 24 (48.0) | 122 (34.56) | 0.064 |
Poor visual acuity | 3 (21.43) | 27 (14.29) | 0.467 | 12 (23.53) | 63 (17.70) | 0.315 |
Quantitative | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | p | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | p |
Pain (FPS, range 0–6) | 2.85 (1.73) | 1.34 (1.69) | 0.002 | 2.04 (2.06) | 1.58 (1.97) | 0.125 |
Number of drugs that increase the risk of falling | 1.07 (0.92) | 0.33 (0.62) | < 0.01 | 0.53 (0.75) | 0.47 (0.74) | 0.561 |
Affective symptoms (Yesavage score) | 2.00 (2.00) | 0.72 (1.10) | 0.034 | 1.96 (1.63) | 1.28 (1.48) | 0.003 |
Cognitive decline (Pfeiffer score) | 1.36 (1.50) | 0.95 (1.16) | 0.214 | 1.67 (2.42) | 1.72 (2.24) | 0.868 |
Number of drugs | 5.21 (2.72) | 3.88 (2.71) | 0.077 | 5.87 (2.78) | 4.28 (2.54) | < 0.01 |
Muscle strength, range 0–15 | 13.79 (1.63) | 14.39 (1.13) | 0.194 | 11.94 (4.32) | 12.55 (3.68) | 0.284 |
Balance, range 0–7 | 5.38 (1.56) | 6.63 (0.84) | 0.014 | 4.84 (2.34) | 5.36 (2.08) | 0.127 |
Functional situation (Katz, range 0–6) | 0.64 (1.01) | 0.23 (0.60) | 0.156 | 1.51 (1.97) | 1.09 (1.81) | 0.421 |