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A best practice fall prevention exercise program to improve balance, strength / power, and psychosocial health in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, October 2013
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Title
A best practice fall prevention exercise program to improve balance, strength / power, and psychosocial health in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2318-13-105
Pubmed ID
24106864
Authors

Yves J Gschwind, Reto W Kressig, Andre Lacroix, Thomas Muehlbauer, Barbara Pfenninger, Urs Granacher

Abstract

With increasing age neuromuscular deficits (e.g., sarcopenia) may result in impaired physical performance and an increased risk for falls. Prominent intrinsic fall-risk factors are age-related decreases in balance and strength / power performance as well as cognitive decline. Additional studies are needed to develop specifically tailored exercise programs for older adults that can easily be implemented into clinical practice. Thus, the objective of the present trial is to assess the effects of a fall prevention program that was developed by an interdisciplinary expert panel on measures of balance, strength / power, body composition, cognition, psychosocial well-being, and falls self-efficacy in healthy older adults. Additionally, the time-related effects of detraining are tested.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 4 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1048 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 190 18%
Student > Master 181 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 78 7%
Researcher 60 6%
Other 162 15%
Unknown 301 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 191 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 172 16%
Sports and Recreations 155 15%
Psychology 34 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 3%
Other 145 14%
Unknown 338 32%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2015.
All research outputs
#2,057,083
of 4,977,898 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#320
of 587 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,929
of 105,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#18
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 4,977,898 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 56th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 587 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.4. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 29th percentile – i.e., 29% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.

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