Higher levels of physical activity buffered the negative effect of pain severity on physical frailty in older Latinx adults.

Autor: Yin Z; Department of Public Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States. Electronic address: Zenong.Yin@utsa.edu., Li S; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, United States., Land WM; Department of Kinesiology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States., Ullevig SL; College for Health, Community and Policy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States., Juarez F Jr; Department of Public Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States., Hernández AE; Dreeben School of Education, University of the Incarnate Word, United States., Ortega C; Department of Public Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States., Patel NK; Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Health San Antonio, United States., Simmonds MJ; Department of Public Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) [Geriatr Nurs] 2021 Mar-Apr; Vol. 42 (2), pp. 460-466. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 11.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.02.004
Abstrakt: This cross-sectional study examined whether and to what extent physical activity (PA) mediated the effect of chronic pain on physical frailty in a sample of predominantly older Latinx adults. Study participants were 118 community-dwelling older adults in southwest United States. Physical frailty was measured by a summary score of physical function tests. Pain severity and pain interference were measured by the Brief Pain Inventory. PA levels were defined as meeting the PA recommendation by 7-day accelerometry. Pain outcomes and PA were associated with physical frailty, respectively. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that PA mediated the relationship between pain severity and physical frailty. However, no mediation effect of PA was found in the relationship between pain interference and physical frailty scores. Higher levels of PA buffered the negative effect of pain severity on physical frailty. Future studies should pay attention to PA promotion to prevent the negative consequences of frailty in older minority adults.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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