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Dr
Kim van Schooten
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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
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, 29 Apr
Effects of the Mobility-Fit Physical Activity Program on Strength and Mobility in Older Adults in Assisted Living: A Feasibility Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095453
2022
Corrigendum to “Evidence of slow and variable choice-stepping reaction time in cancer survivors with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy” [Gait Posture 89 (2021) 178–185](S0966636221002514)(10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.07.010)
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2022
Development and initial validation of the falls health literacy scale
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2021 Sep
Evidence of slow and variable choice-stepping reaction time in cancer survivors with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.07.010
2021
Association between health literacy and physical activity in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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2021
E-health StandingTall balance exercise for fall prevention in older people: Results of a two year randomised controlled trial
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2021
Exploring Older Adults' Experiences of a Home-Based, Technology-Driven Balance Training Exercise Program Designed to Reduce Fall Risk: A Qualitative Research Study within a Randomized Controlled Trial
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2021
Protocol of a 12-month multifactorial eHealth programme targeting balance, dual-tasking and mood to prevent falls in older people: The StandingTall + randomised controlled trial
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