TY - JOUR AU - Tavares, Darlene Mara dos Santos AU - Corrêa, Thaís Aline Freitas AU - Dias, Flavia Aparecida AU - Ferreira, Pollyana Cristina dos Santos AU - Pegorari, Maycon Sousa PY - 2017/09/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Frailty syndrome and socioeconomic and health characteristics among older adults JF - Colombia Medica JA - Colomb Med VL - 48 IS - 3 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.25100/cm.v48i3.1978 UR - https://colombiamedica.univalle.edu.co/index.php/comedica/article/view/1978 SP - 126-131 AB - <div id="__secidm139877422041696" class="sec sec-first" style="clear: both; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 15.9991px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f8f8f8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><h3 style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.2856em 0px 0.6428em; color: #724128; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">Objective:</h3><p id="__pidm139877422041312" class="p p-first-last" style="margin: 0.6923em 0px;">To investigate the association of frailty syndrome with socioeconomic and health variables among older adults.</p></div><div id="__secidm139877422040928" class="sec" style="clear: both; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 15.9991px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f8f8f8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><h3 style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.2856em 0px 0.6428em; color: #724128; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">Methods:</h3><p id="__pidm139877422040544" class="p p-first-last" style="margin: 0.6923em 0px;">This is a cross-sectional, observational and analytical household research conducted with a sample of 1,609 urban elderly. We used: semi-structured questionnaire, scales (Katz, Lawton and shortened version of Geriatric Depression Scale) and Fragility Phenotype proposed by Fried. Descriptive analysis was performed along with a bivariate and multinomial logistic regression model (<em>p</em><span> </span>&lt;0.05).</p></div><div id="__secidm139877422039504" class="sec" style="clear: both; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 15.9991px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f8f8f8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><h3 style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.2856em 0px 0.6428em; color: #724128; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">Results:</h3><p id="__pidm139877422039120" class="p p-first-last" style="margin: 0.6923em 0px;">The prevalence of pre-frailty condition was 52.0% and the fragility corresponded to 13.6%. Pre-frailty and frailty associated factors were, respectively: age range between 70 and 79 years and 80 years or more; one to four morbidities and five or more morbidities categories; functional disability for basic and instrumental activities of daily life and depression indicative; whilst lack of a companion or income and female gender were only associated to pre-frailty.</p></div><div id="__secidm139877422038384" class="sec sec-last" style="clear: both; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 15.9991px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f8f8f8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><h3 style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 1.2856em 0px 0.6428em; color: #724128; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">Conclusion:</h3><p id="__pidm139877422038000" class="p p-first-last" style="margin: 0.6923em 0px;">The conditions of pre-frailty and frailty levels were elevated with negative effects on the health of the elderly.</p></div> ER -