Table 3. Fear of falling in chronic kidney patients. São João da Boa Vista, SP, Brazil, 2018-2019 (n* = 131).
Variable | FES † (fear of falling) | p ‡ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No/Little | Very/Extremely | ||||
n | % | N | % | ||
Gender | 0.0040 § | ||||
Male | 61 | 88.4 | 8 | 11.5 | |
Female | 42 | 67.7 | 20 | 32.2 | |
Marital status | 0.8648 § | ||||
No partner | 46 | 79.3 | 12 | 20.6 | |
Has a partner | 57 | 78.0 | 16 | 21.9 | |
Systemic Arterial Hypertension | 0.6421 § | ||||
No | 25 | 75.7 | 8 | 24.2 | |
Yes | 78 | 79.5 | 20 | 20.4 | |
Diabetes Mellitus | 0.1461 § | ||||
No | 67 | 82.7 | 14 | 17.2 | |
Yes | 36 | 72.0 | 14 | 28.0 | |
Limb amputation | 0.7010 ǁ | ||||
No | 95 | 79.1 | 25 | 20.8 | |
Yes | 8 | 72.7 | 3 | 27.2 | |
Difficulty walking | <0.0001 § | ||||
No | 67 | 93.0 | 5 | 6.9 | |
Yes | 36 | 61.0 | 23 | 38.9 | |
Walking aid device | 0.2395 ǁ | ||||
No | 90 | 80.3 | 22 | 19.6 | |
Yes | 13 | 68.4 | 6 | 31.5 | |
Bone Mineral Disease | 0.1138 § | ||||
No | 87 | 81.3 | 20 | 18.6 | |
Yes | 16 | 66.6 | 8 | 33.3 | |
Tilburg | <0.0001 § | ||||
Not frail | 66 | 91.6 | 6 | 8.3 | |
Frail | 37 | 62.7 | 22 | 37.2 |
n = Number of participants;
FES = Fall Efficacy Scale;
p = p-value;
p = Value by Chi-square test;
p = Value by Fisher’s exact test