Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults
Increasing balance confidence in older individuals is important towards improving their quality of life and reducing activity avoidance. Here, we investigated if balance confidence (perceived ability) and balance performance (ability) in older adults were related to one another and would improve aft...
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| author | Lara A. Thompson Mehdi Badache Joao Augusto Renno Brusamolin Marzieh Savadkoohi Jelani Guise Gabriel Velluto de Paiva Pius Suh Pablo Sanchez Guerrero Devdas Shetty |
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| description | Increasing balance confidence in older individuals is important towards improving their quality of life and reducing activity avoidance. Here, we investigated if balance confidence (perceived ability) and balance performance (ability) in older adults were related to one another and would improve after balance training. The relationship of balance confidence in conjunction with balance performance for varied conditions (such as limiting vision, modifying somatosensory cues, and also base of support) was explored. We sought to determine if balance confidence and ability, as well as their relationship, could change after several weeks of training. Twenty-seven healthy participants were trained for several weeks during standing and walking exercises. In addition, seven participants with a higher risk of imbalance leading to falls (survivors of stroke) were also trained. Prior to and after training, balance ability and confidence were assessed via the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) and Activities Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, respectively. Both groups showed improvements in balance abilities (i.e., BESS errors significantly decreased after training). Balance confidence was significantly higher in the healthy group than in the stroke group; however, ABC results reflected that balance confidence did not significantly increase after training for each. The correlations between balance ability and balance confidence were explored. Encouragingly, healthy participants displayed a negative correlation between BESS errors and ABC (i.e., enhancements in balance confidence (increases in ABC Scale results) were related to improvements in balance ability (decreases in BESS errors)). For the stroke participants, despite improvements in balance ability, our results showed that there was no relation to balance confidence (i.e., no correlation between BESS errors and ABC) in this group. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-82c816f3770a4cb188fa748cbfe144152025-02-03T06:00:00ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22122021-01-01202110.1155/2021/3214366Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older AdultsLara A. Thompson0Mehdi Badache1Joao Augusto Renno Brusamolin2Marzieh Savadkoohi3Jelani Guise4Gabriel Velluto de Paiva5Pius Suh6Pablo Sanchez Guerrero7Devdas Shetty8Biomedical Engineering ProgramDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering ProgramSchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIncreasing balance confidence in older individuals is important towards improving their quality of life and reducing activity avoidance. Here, we investigated if balance confidence (perceived ability) and balance performance (ability) in older adults were related to one another and would improve after balance training. The relationship of balance confidence in conjunction with balance performance for varied conditions (such as limiting vision, modifying somatosensory cues, and also base of support) was explored. We sought to determine if balance confidence and ability, as well as their relationship, could change after several weeks of training. Twenty-seven healthy participants were trained for several weeks during standing and walking exercises. In addition, seven participants with a higher risk of imbalance leading to falls (survivors of stroke) were also trained. Prior to and after training, balance ability and confidence were assessed via the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) and Activities Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, respectively. Both groups showed improvements in balance abilities (i.e., BESS errors significantly decreased after training). Balance confidence was significantly higher in the healthy group than in the stroke group; however, ABC results reflected that balance confidence did not significantly increase after training for each. The correlations between balance ability and balance confidence were explored. Encouragingly, healthy participants displayed a negative correlation between BESS errors and ABC (i.e., enhancements in balance confidence (increases in ABC Scale results) were related to improvements in balance ability (decreases in BESS errors)). For the stroke participants, despite improvements in balance ability, our results showed that there was no relation to balance confidence (i.e., no correlation between BESS errors and ABC) in this group.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/3214366 |
| spellingShingle | Lara A. Thompson Mehdi Badache Joao Augusto Renno Brusamolin Marzieh Savadkoohi Jelani Guise Gabriel Velluto de Paiva Pius Suh Pablo Sanchez Guerrero Devdas Shetty Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults Journal of Aging Research |
| title | Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults |
| title_full | Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults |
| title_fullStr | Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults |
| title_short | Investigating Relationships between Balance Confidence and Balance Ability in Older Adults |
| title_sort | investigating relationships between balance confidence and balance ability in older adults |
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