Abstract
【Purpose】The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 6-month day care individual rehabilitation on body function and fall prevention self-efficacy.【Subjects】Nineteen elderly people who used day care were included.【Methods】Grip strength and scores of the 30-second chair stand test (CS-30 test), Timed Up & Go （TUG） test scores, the 10m walk test, and the items of the illustrated version of the Fall Prevention Self-efficacy scale (FPSE) were evaluated at baseline and 6 months later the results before and after assessments were compared and then analyzed.【Results】Subjects demonstrated significant improvement in the scores of CS-30 test, the 10m walk test, and the items of the illustrated FPSE scale after 6 months of individual rehabilitation compared to those at baseline (Wilcoxon rank-sum test, p<0.05). On the illustrated FPSE, the scores for the sub-items “standing/sitting” significantly improved after 6 months compared to those at baseline (t test, p<0.05).【Conclusion】Elderly people using day care received 6-month individual rehabilitation. It did not become clear about the effect that individual rehabilitation gave to body function and fall prevention self-efficacy. It is necessary to examine the effect of individual day care rehabilitation in the future with a control group, in addition, it is important to include subjects who considered degree of care level, as a function of activities of daily living, requiring frequency of the rehabilitation.
