S no | Characteristics | Category | Fallers (n = 70) | Non-fallers (n = 312) | p value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gender | Male | 29 (41.4) | 151 (48.4) | |
Female | 41 (58.6) | 161 (51.6) | 0.354 | ||
2 | Age (years) | 64.9 ± 5.7 | 63.7 ± 7.2 | 0.141 | |
3 | Education | Illiterate | 39 (55.7) | 148 (47.6) | |
School | 26 (37.1) | 143 (45.9) | |||
College | 5 (7.1) | 20 (6.4) | 0.403 | ||
4 | Socioeconomic statusa | Lower and extreme lower | 68 (98.6) | 280 (90.6) | |
Middle and upper | 1 (1.4) | 29 (9.4) | 0.025 | ||
5 | Occupation | Working (agriculture labor/daily wage laborer/clerk/watchman/own business/plumber/vegetable seller) | 49 (70.0) | 195 (62.5) | |
Retired/housemaker/non-working | 21 (30) | 117 (37.5) | 0.272 | ||
6 | Systemic illness | Yes | 28 (40.0) | 83 (26.6) | |
No | 42 (60.0) | 229 (73.4) | 0.029 | ||
7 | Vision statusb | <6/6 to 6/18 | 11 (15.9) | 72 (23.3) | |
<6/18 to 6/60 | 28 (40.6) | 146 (47.2) | |||
<6/60 to 3/60 | 23 (33.3) | 84 (27.2) | |||
<3/60 | 7 (10.1) | 7 (2.3) | 0.007 | ||
8 | Eye operated | Unilateral | 38 (54.3) | 217 (69.6) | |
Bilateral | 31 (44.3) | 93 (29.8) | 0.023 |