Transcription of ACTIVITIES-SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE (ABC) SCALE
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ACTIVITIES-SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE (ABC) SCALE
ACTIVITIES-SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE (ABC) SCALE Test and Measures: Adult 2012 Do not copy without permission of Teresa Steffen ABC Page 1 Type of test: Time to administer: 5-10 minutes to administer. Clinical Comments: This test, along with a functional BALANCE test, such as the Berg, will tell the clinician if their client is over confident or under confident about falling. Purpose/population for which tool was developed: The ABC is one of several tools designed to measure an individual s CONFIDENCE in his/her ability to perform daily activities without falling. These tools were designed for use with older adults. The ABC was designed to include a wider continuum of activity difficulty and more detailed item descriptors than the Falls Efficacy SCALE (FES) (see Appendix 2)1 Fear of falling is important to assess because it is a likely confound in measuring postural performance.
71 Correlation between dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) and ABC (age 26 -88) was -.64. 15 Mild balance impairment 177 184 ABC correlated with tandem stance time, unipedal stance time, tandem walking, TUG, 6MWT, Tinneti’s Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (.52-.63).16
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