@article{ref1,
title="Can the Ordered Multi-Stepping Over Hoop test be useful for predicting fallers among older people? A preliminary 1 year cohort study",
journal="Aging clinical and experimental research",
year="2013",
author="Tsutsumimoto, Kota and Doi, Takehiko and Misu, Shogo and Ono, Rei and Hirata, Soichiro",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="427-432",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND AIMS: To prevent falls among older people, we developed a new fall-risk assessment, the &quot;Ordered Multi-Stepping Over Hoop (OMO)&quot; test. The aims of this study were preliminary: to investigate the association of the OMO with cognitive and physical function and to investigate whether the OMO could predict incidents of falling. METHODS: Fifty-nine community-dwelling older people (mean age = 88.0 ± 0.87, female = 49) were recruited. We assessed cognitive and physical function including the OMO test at baseline and monitored the falls of participants during a 12-month follow-up period from the baseline. We investigated whether the OMO was associated with cognitive function, physical function, and incidents of falling. To investigate whether the OMO could predict incidents of falling, a receiver operating characteristic analysis was conducted. RESULTS: The OMO time in fallers was significantly slower than for non-fallers. There were significant correlations between slower OMO times and lower physical functions and executive function. The area under the ROC curve in the OMO was 0.71 (p < 0.05). Times above 21.9 s for the OMO identified those more likely to fall. CONCLUSIONS: The OMO time was correlated with cognitive function, physical function, and incidents of falling. Our preliminary study indicates that the OMO may help to make a distinction between fallers and non-fallers among older people as effectively as other tests.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1594-0667",
doi="10.1007/s40520-013-0061-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-013-0061-6"
}