Physical activity in older adult women: relationship to mobility, balance confidence, health locus of control and risk of osteoporosis fractures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is limited understanding of the relationship between physical activity (PA), mobility and psychological constructs for the prevention/management of osteoporosis fractures in older adult women. PURPOSE: To examine PA patterns and the relationship of PA to mobility, psychological constructs and osteoporosis fracture risk. METHODS: Participants (N=41, ages 70-92, BMI 27.2 (6.1)) completed a general questionnaire, the ABC balance scale, MHLOC locus of control scale, as well as completing mobility tests (TUG and STS). PA was assessed using 5 day pedometry and accelerometry (Biotrainer Pro). RESULTS: The average PA was very low (energy expenditure 225.4 (152.9) kcals/day; activity time 101.8 (42.3) min; step count 4,516 (3,227)). The mobility scores were within the acceptable range (TUG 9.2 (3.8) s; STS 14.2 (6.4) s). Correlations with physical activity: TUG (p<0.05); ABC (p<0.05); Powerful MHLOC (p<0.01, p<0.05). No significant correlations with Internal MHLOC. CONCLUSION: Sedentary PA patterns correlated to poor mobility, low balance confidence and greater fracture risk. Pedometry and accelerometry measured PA demonstrated the importance of multiple methods of PA assessment in understanding the lifestyles of this population. The results aid in identification of factors that can be modified to enhance the quality of life of this population.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".