Activities-specific and Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale
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Activities-specific and Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale.
Sensitivity/specificity A cut-off score of 67% on the ABC resulted in 84% sensitivity and 87% specificity in correctly classifying fallers and non-fallers in a cross-sectional study of older people living in the community (Lajoie and Gallagher 2004). Reliability High retest reliability for the overall scale and most of the individual items has been reported in samples of community dwelling olde...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-9514
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-9514(05)70033-7