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Chinese Journal of Geriatrics Research(Electronic Edition) ›› 2017, Vol. 04 ›› Issue (01): 30-35. doi: 10.3877/cma.j.issn.2095-8757.2017.01.007

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The status and the influence factors of frailty syndrome for elderly individuals

Kaixuan Sun1, Yongbing Liu1, Jin Xue1, Ping Hou1, Linfeng Wu1, Lingling Xue1, Huiping Xue1, Hongcan Shi2,()   

  1. 1. Nursing college of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, China
    2. Medical college of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, China
  • Received:2016-12-16 Online:2017-02-28 Published:2017-02-28
  • Contact: Hongcan Shi
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Abstract:

Objective

To evaluate the hospitalized elderly patients’ frailty status and explore the influencing factors of frailty.

Methods

A total of 120 hospitalized elderly patients were recruited by convenience sampling method from affiliated hospital of Yangzhou University in August to November in 2016. Investigating the baseline data with general questionnaire; Assessing the frailty status (divided into robust, pre-frailty, frailty) with the frailty phenotype; Evaluating the patients in different group with the comprehensive geriatric assessment and analyzing the factors of frailty. For normal distribution measurement data: two groups compared using t test; multiple groups compared using ANOVA. Skewed distribution measurement data was analyzed with nonparametric test. The counting data were described by frequency and percentage, and the comparison between groups was analyzed by crosstabs. The influencing factors of frailty were analyzed by logistic regression model.

Results

The frequency (prevalence) of robust, pre-frailty and frailty were 42(35.0%), 46(38.3%) and 32(26.7%). The results of univariate analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences in the distribution of frailty in terms of career, smoking, status of depression, age, income level, educational level, health self-assessment, type of illness and kinds of drug (χ2=13.745, 5.074, 0.428, 29.17; H=23.569, 8.316, 12.482, 20.702, 29.286, 16.038; P < 0.05 or 0.01). There were also statistically significant differences of ADL, IADL, score of Mini-Mental state examination (MMSE) and scores of anxiety, fatigue, physical fatigue and mental fatigue scales, among different frailty status (divided into robust, pre-frailty, frailty (H=49.502, 51.763, 26.435, 38.410, 48.374, 52.338, 7.923; P < 0.05 or 0.01). Among them, all scores of patients of frailty were significantly higher than individuals in robust and pre-frailty status. The multiple logistic regression indicated that increasing age, smoking, depression, low score of activity of daily living and mini-mental state examination, and physical fatigue were significant risk factor associated with frailty (OR=3.022, 3.177, 9.650, 1.266, 0.835, 1.733, P < 0.05 or 0.01).

Conclusion

The incidence of frailty among hospitalized elderly patients is not optimistic and the risk factors are many. We should pay more attention to the frailty status of hospitalized elderly patients and take multifaceted intervention.

Key words: Aged, Frailty, Comprehensive geriatric assessment, Influence factor

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