Association between Physical Functionality and Falls Risk in Community-Living Older Adults

Table 2

Correlation analysis between, sex, age, falls risk, physical functional performance, and health for sample participants (aged 65–92 years) (italic data are the domain score physical functional performance).

	2	3	4	5	i	ii	iii	iv	v	Falls risk
(1) Age (years)	𝟎.𝟏𝟕	−𝟎.𝟐𝟖	−𝟎.𝟎𝟒	−𝟎.𝟔𝟏^∗∗	−𝟎.𝟒𝟓^∗∗	−𝟎.𝟓𝟐^∗∗	−𝟎.𝟒𝟒^∗	−𝟎.𝟔𝟑^∗∗	−𝟎.𝟔𝟐^∗∗	𝟎.𝟓𝟗^∗∗
(2) Sex		0.18	0.07	0.08	0.34^#	0.12	−0.26	−0.01	0.03	0.01
(3) SF12phys (AU)			−𝟎.𝟎𝟖	𝟎.𝟓𝟑^∗∗	𝟎.𝟓𝟏^∗∗	𝟎.𝟓𝟔^∗∗	𝟎.𝟒𝟕^∗∗	𝟎.𝟒𝟗^∗∗	𝟎.𝟓𝟐^∗∗	−𝟎.𝟏𝟕
(4) SF12men (AU)				0.04	−0.03	0.04	0.11	0.05	0.04	0.04
(5) CS-PFP10 total score (AU)					𝟎.𝟖𝟔^∗∗	𝟎.𝟗𝟒^∗∗	𝟎.𝟕𝟒^∗∗	𝟎.𝟗𝟗^∗∗	𝟎.𝟓𝟑^∗∗	𝟎.𝟒𝟗^∗∗
(i) Upper body strength (AU)						0.83**	0.44*	0.77**	0.79**	0.40*
(ii) Lower body strength (AU)							0.72**	0.92**	0.92*	0.41*
(iii) Upper body flexibility (AU)								0.78**	0.76**	0.29
(iv) Balance (AU)									0.99**	−0.51**
(v) Endurance (AU)										−0.51**

^#P value < 0.10, *P value < 0.05, and **P value < 0.01.