Internal Consistency of Reliability Assessment of the Persian version of the ‘Home Falls and Accident Screening Tool’

Introduction: falling is a common problem among the elderly. falling indoors and outdoors is highlyprevalent among the iranian elderly. therefore, identification of the contributing factors at home and theirmodification can reduce falls and subsequent injuries in the elderly. the goal of this study was to identifythe elderly at risk of fall, using the ‘home falls and accident screening tool’ (home fast), and todetermine the reliability of this tool.method: sixty old people were selected from five geographical regions of tehran through the localtown councils. participants were aged 60 to 65 years, and home fast was used to assess inter raterand test- retest reliability.results: test-retest reliability in the study showed that agreement between the items of the persianversion of home fast was over 0.8, which is a very good reliability. the agreement between thedomains was 0.65-1.00, indicative of moderate to high reliability. moreover, the inter rater reliability ofthe items was over 0.8, which is also very good. the correlation of each item between the domains was0.01-1.00, which shows poor to high reliability.discussion: this study showed that the reliability of the persian version of home fast is high. thistool can therefore be used as an appropriate screening tool by professionals to take necessary preventivemeasures for the iranian elderly population.