Journal
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2023.105257
Keywords
Eleven -Check (EC) questionnaire; Frailty screening; Sarcopenia; Features of decline in daily life; Citizen -driven; Self-awareness enhancement
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The study found that the Eleven-Check questionnaire could be used to screen frailty and sarcopenia status in community-dwelling older adults. The high-risk group had a higher risk of frailty and sarcopenia.
Purpose: Frailty was indicated to be closely related to older adults' lifestyles, especially in nutrition-related factors (such as balanced diet and oral functions), physical factors, and social factors in our previous study. Here, we developed an Eleven-Check (EC) questionnaire containing the aforementioned three factors. This study tested whether the EC questionnaire can estimate frailty in community-dwelling older adults.Materials and Methods: The study sample comprised 1,523 independent older adults. The primary outcome of frailty was assessed using the Cardiovascular Health Study index. The secondary outcome of sarcopenia was assessed by the criteria of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019. The EC questionnaire comprised 11 dichotomous factors related to nutrition-related (diet and oral functions), physical, and social factors.Results: Frailty prevalence was 8.5 % (76.1 +/- 5.8y, 45.1 % women). The accuracy of the EC questionnaire for frailty was optimal when the total scores of 4/5 were used as the threshold. Compared to the low-risk group (<5), the high-risk group (>= 5) had a significant association between frailty with an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of 4.68 (95 %CI, 3.10-7.05). Moreover, the high-risk group also had a significant association with sarcopenia, with an aOR of 1.82 (1.27-2.61).Conclusions: For community-dwelling older adults, the EC questionnaire was able to simply screen frailty and sarcopenia status. Further, it might raise older adults' self-awareness from a multifaceted perspective in their daily life to prevent steady decline and frailty sustainably in a community setting.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available