Intervention to prevent falls through health education for elderly in Taiwan

The study aims are to develop a health education program to prevent falls at home and in the community for elderly based on health belief model and check the results; including falls prevention knowledge,health beliefs,cues to action,behavior,and fall times for the elderly. this study uses the quasi-experimental design method,including pre-test and post-tests with nonequivalent groups. the findings largely support the health education intervention of falls prevention will significantly improve prevention knowledge,the contents of health belief,and cues to action,fall prevention behavior and the times of falls at home and in the community for elderly. © 2013 pakistan journal of statistics.