Examination of useful items for the assessment of fall risk in the community-dwelling elderly Japanese population

Table 1 The results of factor analysis on symptoms of falling

Items	Factor analysis		High-fall risk rate
Items	Factor loading (F1)	Communality	Non-faller (%)	Faller (%)	Difference (%)
Feel like falling in the preceding year^a	−0.717	0.147	29.8	83.4	53.6*
Stumble^a	−0.789	0.204	11.2	37.1	25.9*
Look like falling (third-party evaluation)^a	−0.717	0.147	3.2	23.4	20.2*
Eigenvalue	1.65
Accumulative contribution	55.0%

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