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	Escala de Confiança em Equilíbrio Específica para Atividades	Escala de Fragilidade FRAIL
Área	Gerontologia	Gerontologia
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ano de origem	1995	2012
Autor original	Lorraine E. Powell	John E. Morley
Tipo	Self-report questionnaire	Clinician-administered questionnaire
Fonte seminal	Powell, L. E., & Myers, A. M. (1995). The Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 50A(1), M28-M34.	Morley, J. E., Vellas, B., van Kan, G. A., et al. (2013). Frailty consensus: a call to action. J Am Med Dir Assoc, 14(6), 392-397.
Outros nomes	ABC, ABC Scale	FRAIL Scale, FRAIL Index
Relacionados	5	5
Resumo	The Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale is a self-report questionnaire developed by Powell and Myers in 1995 to measure an older adult's confidence in maintaining balance while performing 16 common daily activities. Unlike performance-based balance tests, the ABC Scale captures self-efficacy—the person's subjective belief in their ability to perform activities without losing balance or falling. It is widely used in clinical practice, rehabilitation, and research to identify individuals at high fall risk due to low balance confidence and to measure outcomes of interventions designed to restore confidence and activity participation.	The FRAIL Scale is a brief, five-item clinical screening tool developed by John E. Morley and colleagues to identify frailty in older adults. Designed as a simple and efficient alternative to more comprehensive frailty assessments, it incorporates the key domains of the frailty phenotype: fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illness, and weight loss. The FRAIL Scale is widely used in primary care, hospital, and long-term care settings to stratify risk and guide management decisions.