Relationship between sleep quality and postural balance in community-dwelling older persons: studio transversal.

Objetive: To determine the relationship between sleep quality and postural balance in older adults living in the community.

Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was used. We recruited 53 subjects who fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

Perception of clinical educational environment by student of physiotherapy based on the Educational Environment Measurement Questionnaire of the Postgraduate Hospital in Chile.

Purpose: It aimed at describing the perception of the clinical educational environment by physiotherapy students based on the Educational Environment Measurement Questionnaire of the Postgraduate Hospital in Chile.

Methods: The clinical education environment was evaluated according to the PHEEM by 192 students originally enrolled in the fifth year of the physiotherapy career at three different headquarters of the academic institution: Santiago, Viña del Mar and Concepcion Campus (Metropolitan, Valparaiso and Bio Bio region, respectively), from March to October 2018. The Cronbach's alpha was applied to measure the reliability of the instrument and the Student t and ANOVA tests were used to compare the differences of PHEEM scores by headquarters, environmental areas, and experience of internship.

Reliability of two gait speed tests of different timed phases and equal non-timed phases in community-dwelling older persons.

Background: Gait speed is a fast, low cost and accurate measurement for evaluating older persons’ functional ability, both health and with comorbidities. Previous studies have evaluated gait speed measured over courses of varying distances, but the non-timed phases are not measured uniformly. It is unknown if this affects the results of the test.