Analysis of the current status and influencing factors of fall alertness in elderly patients with knee osteo-arthritis
CHEN Min
HAN Shan
ZHOU Jing
ZHENG Haiou
CAI Ningge
Abstract：Objective To investigate the status quo of fall alertness in elderly patients with knee osteoarthritis(KOA)and to analyze its influencing factors.Methods A total of 338 elderly patients with KOA who were admitted to the department of osteoarthritis of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from October 2023 to October 2024 were selected as the study subjects by convenience sampling.The survey was conduct-ed using the general information questionnaire,the fall alertness scale,the STEADI self-rating scale for fall risk in the el-derly,the visual analogue scale and the Barthel index scale.Univariate analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the influencing factors of fall alertness in elderly patients with KOA.Results The fall alertness score of elderly KOA patients was(59.98±10.50),indicating a high fall alertness.The results of multiple linear regres-sion showed that fall fear,fall risk,fall prevention education,and self-care ability were the influencing factors of fall alert-ness in elderly KOA patients(all P<0.05).Conclusion Fall alertness is high in elderly patients with KOA,and the degree of fall alertness is affected by factors such as fall fear,accuracy of fall risk assessment,fall prevention education ef-fect,and self-care ability.
Keywords：knee osteoarthritisfallfall alertnessaged
Publication Date：2025-06-25
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 9-14 )