Background: In 2008 a tool named Short Fall efficacy international (Short FES-I) was developed by kampen et al to assess fear of fall in older adult’s scale consisted on seven items. It is four points Likert scale. The total score 28 which shows the high concern and 7 minimum fall. Objective: Aim study translate validate short Urdu language. Methods: it descriptive cross-sectional study. comple...

Chronic conditions and falls are related issues faced by many aging adults. Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) added brief fall-related content to the standardized 6-week workshop; however, no research had examined changes in Fall-related self-efficacy (SE) in response to CDSMP participation. This study explored relationships and changes in SE using the SE to manage chro...

background:  falls is worldwide health problem among older adults. different scales have been introduced related to falls, including falls efficacy scale (fes) and activity-specific balance scale (abcs). persian version of these scale needs to be assessed for internal consistency. the aim of this study was to evaluate the internal consistency of persian version of fes and abcs. methods:  in thi...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this prospective study, undertaken in elderly patients with stroke undergoing rehabilitation, were to determine to what extent fall-related self-efficacy changes over time, its relationships to objectively assessed functions and activities, and the predictive capacity of self-efficacy at discharge for activities of daily living 10 months after stroke. METHODS The ...

objective: the purpose of this study is to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and construct validity of preschool, first and second grade versions of berkeley parenting self-efficacy scale. method: the subjects were 317 mothers: (102 mothers of preschool children, 111 mothers of first grade children and 104 mothers of second grade children) who were randomly selected from schoo...

background & aim : perceived self-efficacy could lead to self-management behaviors among diabetic patients and the diabetes management self-efficacy scale (dmses) assesses the extent to which diabetic patients are confident that they can manage diabetes. however, the iranian version of dmses was not available. the objective of this study was the translation and psychometric evaluation of the ir...

objective: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of perceived social selfefficacy (psse) with depression in students. methods: the sample of the present study consisted of 216 adolescent students including 120 males and 96 females randomly selected from different educational institutes of karachi, pakistan. the age of the participants ranged from 16 to 19 years o...