Effects of Obesity and Age on Fall Risk - Implications for Safety Guidelines

肥胖和年龄对跌倒风险的影响 - 对安全指南的影响

• 批准号: 8326965
• 负责人: MICHAEL L MADIGAN
• 金额: $ 25.76万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8326965
• 关键词: Effects; Obesity; Age; Fall; Risk

The long-term goal of this work is to develop fall prevention guidelines that are protective for obese and older workers because current guidelines do not account for the special needs of these subpopulations. Two specific aims are proposed. The first aim will determine the effects of obesity and increased age on risk of slipping, tripping, and losing balance during simulated construction work. Our focus is on slips, trips, and loss of balance because they are among the most commonly reported contributing factors to falls in the workplace. This aim will also focus on realistic situations in construction work (i.e. work that has an inherent high risk for falls) that can lead to a slip, trip, or loss of balance, and that are amenable to safety guidelines to reduce fall risk. The second aim will determine the effects of obesity and increased age on balance and balance recovery after slipping and tripping. The results from both aims will improve our understanding as to why obese and older workers are at an increased risk of falls. The results can also be used by policy makers to develop revised fall-prevention safety guidelines or designs for safety that are protective for obese and older workers. This research is novel in two aspects. First, it is novel in targeting the main and interactive effects of obesity, aging, and work experience on balance in the construction industry. While the main effects of aging on balance have been studied extensively, the effects of obesity, experience, and their interaction with aging have received little attention despite the growing number of obese and obese older construction workers. Second, it includes testing under realistic working conditions so that results can be more-readily translated to safety guidelines and/or designs for safety to reduce the risk of falls in obese workers. This research has the added benefit that, while focused on construction, several of the results are applicable to other occupational sectors.

这项工作的长期目标是制定保护性的秋季预防准则 肥胖和年长的工人，因为当前的准则不考虑 这些亚群。提出了两个具体目标。第一个目标将决定效果 在模拟过程中肥胖和年龄增加的风险，绊倒和失去平衡 施工工作。我们的重点是滑移，旅行和失去平衡，因为它们是 最常报道的是在工作场所跌倒的因素。这个目标也将集中 在建筑工作的现实情况下（即具有固有的高风险的工作） 可能导致滑倒，旅行或失去平衡，并且可以根据安全指南来减少 跌倒风险。第二个目标将决定肥胖和年龄增加的影响，平衡和 平衡滑倒和绊倒后的恢复。两个目标的结果将改善我们的 了解为什么肥胖和年长的工人会增加跌倒的风险。结果 政策制定者也可以使用修订后的秋季预防安全指南或 安全设计，可保护肥胖和年长工人。这项研究是两个新颖的 方面。首先，它是针对肥胖，衰老和工作的主要和交互作用的新颖的 建筑行业平衡的经验。而衰老的主要影响平衡 已经对肥胖，经验的影响及其与之相互作用进行了广泛的研究 尽管肥胖和肥胖年龄较大，但衰老很少受到关注 建筑工人。其次，它包括在现实的工作条件下进行测试，以便 可以将结果更可读地转化为安全指南和/或设计，以减少 肥胖工人跌倒的风险。这项研究具有额外的好处，虽然专注于 构造，几个结果适用于其他职业部门。