BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Aging
Sec. Interventions in Aging
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1330612
This article is part of the Research TopicInsights into Falls Efficacy and Fear of FallingView all 5 articles
Convergent and Predictive Validity of the Balance Recovery Confidence Scale, and Falls Efficacy Scale-International with regard to the Falls Efficacy Scale-International and Activities-specific Balance Confidence scales: a cross-sectional study.
Provisionally accepted
- 1Yishun Community Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- 2Health and Social Sciences Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Singapore
- 3Public Health and Sports Sciences Department, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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The purpose of this study was to determine the convergent validity between the Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, Balance Recovery Confidence (BRC) Scale and Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), which are assessment tools widely used to measure the constructs of falls efficacy and concerns about falling. The study also investigated the predictive validity of ABC and BRC on concerns about falling. One hundred and thirty-one older adults (mean age of 73.5 years, SD 4.98) completed the three scales and self-reported their demographic data. 63.4% were female. One hundred and thirty-one older adults, 65 years of age and older, completed the three scales and selfreported their demographic data. The convergent validity between the ABC, BRC, and FES-I scales was investigated using Pearson correlation coefficients. Predictive validity was investigated using regression models. Findings indicated strong correlation between ABC and FES-I (r = -0.794, p<.001), and moderate correlation between BRC and FES-I (r = -0.587, p<.001) and ABC and BRC (r = 0.642, p<.001). ABC (R 2 =0.6279) was found to be a stronger predictor of FES-I than BRC (R 2 =0.3398). In conclusion, assessment tools for balance confidence, balance recovery confidence, and concerns about falling should be appropriately selected when studying the various constructs of interest, instead of using them interchangeably. Concerns about falling can also be further understood by exploring balance confidence and balance recovery confidence.
Keywords: falls efficacy, Balance confidence, balance recovery confidence, concerns about falling, Psychological constructs, Community-dwelling, older adults
Received: 31 Oct 2023; Accepted: 05 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Hazel Xu Teng Ting, Yishun Community Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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