Research Project

Kim van Schooten
Current Appointments
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Kim van Schooten is a senior postdoctoral fellow at NeuRA and conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW supported by the Human Frontier Science Program. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 from the faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She was a Mitacs & Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research focuses on balance control and fall risk in seniors. She is particularly interested in the underlying mechanisms of balance impairments, and methodologies for ambulatory monitoring of mobility using wearable sensors. Through a combination of experimental and epidemiological studies, she studies how people maintain and recover balance during daily-life activities, to improve our understanding of why falls occur and to reveal targets for the prevention of mobility impairments and falls.
Publications
2023, 02 Jun
Association of prospective falls in older people with ubiquitous step-based fall risk parameters calculated from ambulatory inertial signals: retrospective observational data analysis study (Preprint)
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/49587
2023, 02 Jun
Association of prospective falls in older people with ubiquitous step-based fall risk parameters calculated from ambulatory inertial signals: retrospective observational data analysis study (Preprint)
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.49587
2023, 01 Jun
A Self-Guided Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Reduce Fear of Falling in Older People: a Randomised Controlled Trial
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1148382929
2023, 24 Apr
Feasibility, Reliability, and Safety of Remote Five Times Sit to Stand Test in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15092434
2023, 01 Apr
Circumstances of Falls During Sit-to-Stand Transfers in Older People: A Cohort Study of Video-Captured Falls in Long-Term Care
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1152787400
2022, 22 Dec
Responsiveness of Daily Life Gait Quality Characteristics over One Year in Older Adults Who Experienced a Fall or Engaged in Balance Exercise
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010101
2022, 27 Sep
External validation and further exploration of fall prediction models based on questionnaires and daily-life trunk accelerometry
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.26.509506
2022, 26 Sep
Quality Output Checklist and Content Assessment (QuOCCA): a new tool for assessing research quality and reproducibility
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1151382941
2022, 01 Jul
Short Daily-Life Walking Bouts and Poor Self-Reported Health Predict the Onset of Depression in Community-Dwelling Older People: A 2-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1145277798
2022, 01 Jun
Economic evaluation of the e-Health StandingTall balance exercise programme for fall prevention in people aged 70 years and over
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1148557225