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Depressive symptomatology and fall risk among community-dwelling older adults.
The directionality of observed relationship between falls and depressive symptoms (DS) is in need of elaboration given that cross-sectional study designs can yield biased estimates of the DS-falls relationship. This study found that the DS-falls relationship was not significant when use of psychiatric medications, which was positively associated with falls, was included in the model.
AHRQ-funded; HS000046.
Citation: Hoffman GJ, Hays RD, Wallace SP .
Depressive symptomatology and fall risk among community-dwelling older adults.
Soc Sci Med 2017 Apr;178:206-13. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.020.
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Keywords: Depression, Elderly, Falls, Patient Safety, Risk