Objectives: Fear of falling (FOF) causes excess disability in nursing home (NH) residents and is associated with vision and hearing impairment. We explored factors associated with FOF in 225 NH residents with vision, hearing or dual sensory impairment.Methods: We explored age, gender, cognition, depression, social engagement, illness burden, falls, physical function, mobility, falls self-efficacy and outcome expectancy as predictors of FOF using univariate logistic regression modeling, followed by multivariate analysis by group (visual, hearing, dual, total sample).Results: Fifty-one percent of residents had FOF. Residents who had FOF reported better cognition, lower falls self-efficacy, and higher outcome expectancy in the total sample and in most impairment groups. Falls outcome expectancy predictedFOF in the total sample and in the visual and hearing sensory impairment groups.Conclusion: When addressing FOF in NH residents it is important to address sensory status along with fears about falling to promote function.

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害怕跌倒感觉受损的疗养院居民。

目标：恐惧摔倒（FOF）导致疗养院（NH）居民过度残疾，并与视力和听力障碍相关。我们探讨了225名有视觉，听觉或双重感觉障碍的NH居民中与FOF相关的因素。方法：我们探讨了年龄，性别，认知，抑郁，社交，疾病负担，跌倒，身体机能，活动能力，跌倒自我效能感和结局使用单变量logistic回归模型预测期望值作为FOF的预测指标，然后按组（视觉，听觉，双重，总样本）进行多元分析。结果：51％的居民患有FOF。患有FOF的居民在总样本和大多数损伤组中报告出更好的认知能力，更低的跌倒自我效能感和更高的预期结果。