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Dr

Kim van Schooten


Current Appointments

Research Fellow
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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