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Record W4413988741 · doi:10.1007/s40520-025-03172-8

Proportion of participants meeting falls prevention guidelines in an evidence-based community-based exercise program

2025· article· en· W4413988741 on OpenAlexafffund
Maria Fernanda Fuentes Diaz, Kathryn M. Sibley, Kate Giberson, Martin Sénéchal, Danielle R. B̀ouchard

Bibliographic record

VenueAging Clinical and Experimental Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicBalance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ManitobaGeorge & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare InnovationUniversity of New Brunswick
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchFondation de la recherche en santé du Nouveau-Brunswick
KeywordsFall preventionGerontologyPsychologyMedicineSuicide preventionPhysical therapyPoison controlMedical emergency

Abstract

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Although exercise is strongly recommended to prevent falls in older adults (exercise that challenges balance, performed three hours per week on an ongoing basis), few community-based programs meet these recommendations. Assess the proportion of participants meeting fall prevention exercise recommendations in a community-based program and explore how adherence varies by individual characteristics and participation mode (in-person, tele-exercise, or hybrid). A cross-sectional analysis of Zoomers in Balance participants who completed an online questionnaire about their demographic data, mode of participation, and their perceived balance intensity in a 12-week series using the Balance Intensity Scale (1-no effort at all to 5-maximal effort). Weekly attendance was self-reported after each 12-week series, and ongoing participation was assessed using registration data over one year. The average perceived balance intensity was 3.2 ± 0.7 (range 1–5), the average attendance was 1.3 ± 0.6 h/week (range 0.2–4.2), and participants attended an average of 3.4 ± 0.6 series/year (range 2–4). None of the participants met all three guidelines. The most fulfilled recommendation was ongoing participation (43%), which was greater in the hybrid ( B = 2.68; p < 0.001) and tele-exercise ( B = 1.28; p < 0.001) groups compared with the in-person mode. In addition, the mode of participation was associated with meeting one or more guidelines (χ 2 = 23.05; p < 0.001), without any significant difference between modes. Offering hybrid participation options could lead to greater adherence to evidence-based guidelines, thereby reducing the risk of falls. The proportion of participants meeting fall prevention guidelines in a community-based program is low, with a trend indicating that hybrid options are more effective.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score0.535

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.538
GPT teacher head0.658
Teacher spread0.121 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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