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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2014 Mar 25;26(4):616–636. doi: 10.1177/0898264314526619

Table 3.

Associations Between Decreasing Balance Confidence and Increasing Impairments, Functional Limitations, and Disabilities.

Dependent variable Intercept
Balance confidence
Group assignment
Age
Estimate (standard error) Estimate (standard error) Estimate (standard error) Estimate (standard error)
Impairments
 Berg Balance Test 4.07 (0.11)*** 0.004 (0.001)*** −0.005 (0.01) −0.006 (0.001)***
 Hip flexion strength 0.08 (0.04)* 0.001 (0.0001)*** −0.002 (0.005) 0.0003 (0.0005)
Functional limitations
 Timed-Up and Go Test 2.22 (0.32)*** −0.01 (0.002)*** 0.016 (0.04) 0.02 (0.004)***
 Repeated chair stands 2.63 (0.36)*** −0.01 (0.001)*** −0.03 (0.04) 0.01 (0.005)**
Disability
 Physical activitya 5.52 (0.40)*** 0.01 (0.002)*** 0.066 (0.05) −0.02 (0.005)***
 Activity restrictionsb 8.97 (1.03)*** 0.03 (0.003)*** 0.32 (0.12)** −0.03 (0.01)**
 Lubben’s social network 59.50 (6.35)*** 0.06 (0.01)** −1.30 (0.80) −0.40 (0.08)***

Note. Each line represents an individual model with balance confidence as a time-varying predictor for each time-varying dependent variable controlling for group assignment and age.

a

Measured with the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly.

b

Measured with the Survey of Activities and Fear of Falling in the Elderly Activity Restriction subscale.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.