TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Acceptance of hip protectors for hip fracture prevention in nursing homes
JO  - Osteoporosis international
A1  - Hubacher, M.
A1  - Wettstein, A.
SP  - 794
EP  - 799
VL  - 12
IS  - 9
N2  - In order to prevent hip fractures 548 fall-prone senior citizens living in 20 nursing homes participated in a randomized controlled trial of hip protectors. One hundred and sixty-four were randomly selected into the control group and 384 into the intervention group. Of the patients in the intervention group 138 (35.9%) wore the protector throughout the whole 10 months of the study's duration, 124 (32.3%) quit wearing the protectors after an initial wearing period and 122 (31.8%) refused to wear them at all. The regular wearers had the protector on during an average of roughly 12 hours a day, so they were protected for 50% of their exposure time (including at night). Fifty-nine percent of the drop-outs stopped wearing the protectors in the first two study months, mostly for non-medical reasons. Calculation by a forecasting model showed that those senior citizens who were initially prepared to wear the protector tended to be those who were physically restricted.
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SN  - 0937-941X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -