Analysis of multiple linear regressions was conducted to predict the risk factors affecting
HRQOL. As shown in Table 4, age, being a woman, falling history, FOF, and history of diabetes
and arthritis were independent risk factors of PCS in the elderly participants after adjustment for
confounders. Subjects who had not experienced a falling episode in the past year exhibited significantly
higher PCS scores than those who had experienced a single fall (p = 0.029) and those with a
history of recurrent falls (p < 0.001). However, there was no significant difference in MCS score
between the falling episode groups. On the other hand, only FOF was found to have a significant
impact on MCS score after multivariate analysis, and falling did not show a significant impact on
the score