Fig 1.
Timeline of study assessments.
Short-term and long-term periods are defined to determine whether concern about falling at the start of such a period is predictive for falling within such a period and whether falling within such a period is predictive of having increased concern about falling at the end of that period compared to the start of that period. At baseline, a participant’s first assessment, participants reported any falls they had experienced in the previous year and physical activity during one-week, age and gender were recorded.
Fig 2.
Progression of concern about falling before and after a fall.
Distribution of FES-I scores per month are displayed in dark grey relative to the months in between which the participant experienced his or her first fall (area indicated in light gray) (-1 = last monthly questionnaire before the fall, +1 = first monthly questionnaire after the fall). Diamonds and solid line represent the mean FES-I scores and the progression of these mean FES-I scores, respectively. The dark grey areas represent the distribution of FES-I scores per month. The upper figure displays FES-I progression before and after any type of fall. The lower figure displays FES-I progression before and after an injurious fall. FES-I scores of people who fell more than once are only included until the first monthly questionnaire after the first fall. Sample size (N) is indicated for each month.
Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
Table 2.
Relation between falling and concern about falling over long-term and short-term intervals.