The population approach to falls injury prevention in older people: findings of a two community trial

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Change in proportions of respondents reporting fall-prevention behaviour from pre- to post-intervention

Risk factor	%pre	%post	OR¹	95% CI
Discussed falls with health professional	16.1	19.6	1.31	(1.14,1.49)***
Discussed activity with health professional	44.8	45.7	1.08	(0.98,1.20)
Discussed medications with practitioner	65.2	68.1	1.16	(1.03,1.31)*
Media awareness: falls	40.1	37.0	0.89	(0.81,0.99)*
Media awareness: physical activity	63.0	63.1	1.04	(0.94,1.16)
Awareness of falls-related council activity²	25.1	26.6
Men	27.6	31.4	1.22	(1.04,1.43)**
Women	22.7	21.8	0.97	(0.82,1.15)
Safe shoes daily or almost daily	77.1	81.6	1.31	(1.15,1.48)**
Home modifications	28.1	32.9	1.29	(1.15,1.45)***
3+ serves of calcium	16.5	24.6	1.67	(1.47,1.89)***
Meeting moderate/vigorous guidelines	61.4	63.9	1.14	(1.02,1.27)*
Strength activity (2 days a week or more)	16.0	18.6	1.24	(1.08,1.41)**
Belief that falls are preventable³	61.4	63.9
Northern Rivers	64.9	64.5	1.32	(0.76,2.30)
Wide Bay	57.9	63.2	0.99	(0.54,1.83)
Self-perceived low falls risk	62.4	60.9	0.94	(0.84,1.05)
Belief that falls are preventable⁴	61.4	63.9
85+ years	47.8	49.5	1.03	(0.55,1.93)
80-84 years	42.4	56.8	2.17	(1.31,3.57)**
75-79 years	57.4	59.5	1.27	(0.88,1.85)
70-74 years	61.6	65.2	1.44	(1.04,2.00)*
65-69 years	64.9	67.6	1.21	(0.90,1.63)
59-64 years	70.8	68.3	1.02	(0.75,1.38)

*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001
¹Adusted for gender, age-group (60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, 85+), education (university/college, trade/technical, senior, junior, primary or less), self-perceived general health (excellent, very good, good, fair, poor), region (Northern Rivers, Wide Bay)
² Significant time × gender effect
³Significant time × region effect
⁴ Significant time × age-group effect

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