Table 3 Prevalence of fall and injuries by various factors associated with Health-Related quality of life among the older people aged 60 years and above in India (LASI, 2017-18).
From: Linkages of quality of life with falls and injuries among older people in India
Characteristics | Falls | Injuries | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No falls | Minor falls | Major falls | p-value | No Injury | Injury | p-value | |
Factors of HRQOL | |||||||
ADL | |||||||
No | 72.5 | 5.8 | 21.7 | < 0.001 | 77.4 | 22.6 | < 0.001 |
Yes | 84.3 | 3.8 | 11.9 | 87.2 | 12.8 | ||
Mobility | |||||||
No | 86.0 | 3.6 | 10.5 | < 0.001 | 88.6 | 11.4 | < 0.001 |
Yes | 78.2 | 4.8 | 17.0 | 82.3 | 17.7 | ||
IADL | |||||||
No | 77.7 | 5.1 | 17.3 | < 0.001 | 81.7 | 18.4 | < 0.001 |
Yes | 84.9 | 3.7 | 11.5 | 87.8 | 12.2 | ||
Pain | |||||||
No | 87.1 | 3.6 | 9.4 | < 0.001 | 89.4 | 10.6 | < 0.001 |
Yes | 77.5 | 4.6 | 17.9 | 81.8 | 18.2 | ||
Depression CES-D | |||||||
No | 84.4 | 3.5 | 12.1 | < 0.001 | 87.4 | 12.6 | < 0.001 |
Yes | 80.8 | 4.9 | 14.2 | 84.3 | 15.7 | ||
Quality of Life (0.5–0.79) | |||||||
Low QoL | 78.4 | 5.1 | 16.5 | < 0.001 | 82.5 | 17.5 | < 0.001 |
Medium QoL | 83.1 | 3.7 | 13.2 | 86.1 | 13.9 | ||
High QoL | 90.0 | 2.6 | 7.5 | 92.1 | 7.9 | ||
Total | 83.4 | 4.0 | 12.7 | 86.5 | 13.5 | ||
