Table 1.
Demographics of falls in ‘pre-COVID-19’, ‘COVID-19’ and ‘programme’ periods
| ‘Pre-COVID-19’ period | ‘COVID-19’ period | ‘Programme’ period | P value* | ||
| January–December 2019 | January–June 2020 | July 2020–August 2021 | |||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Sex | Male | 70 (58) | 52 (61) | 84 (59) | 0.918 |
| Female | 50 (42) | 33 (39) | 58 (41) | ||
| Age group | 0–30 | 5 (4) | 2 (2) | 6 (4) | 0.956 |
| 31–50 | 9 (8) | 5 (6) | 9 (6) | ||
| 51–70 | 41 (34) | 31 (36) | 44 (31) | ||
| >70 | 65 (54) | 47 (55) | 83 (58) | ||
| Time of fall | 00:01–06:00 | 30 (25) | 23 (27) | 29 (20) | 0.506 |
| 06:01–12:00 | 28 (23) | 24 (28) | 35 (25) | ||
| 12:01–18:00 | 27 (23) | 23 (27) | 37 (26) | ||
| 18:01–00:00 | 35 (29) | 15 (18) | 41 (29) | ||
| Specialty of underlying clinical problem | Medical | 65 (54) | 49 (58) | 93 (65) | 0.345 |
| Surgical | 42 (35) | 25 (29) | 34 (24) | ||
| Emergency medicine | 13 (11) | 11 (13) | 15 (11) | ||
| Fall risk | Low risk | 54 (45) | 46 (55) | 59 (42) | 0.126 |
| High risk | 66 (55) | 37 (45) | 83 (58) | ||
| Location of fall | Patient bedside | 88 (74) | 69 (81) | 115 (81) | 0.815 |
| Patient cubicle | 3 (3) | 1 (1) | 3 (2) | ||
| Ward toilet | 15 (13) | 6 (7) | 9 (6) | ||
| Ward common Area | 11 (9) | 7 (8) | 13 (9) | ||
| Others | 3 (3) | 2 (2) | 2 (1) | ||
*Significant difference is considered when the p value is less than 0.05.