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The findings from this study will allow participants to acknowledge the relationship between oral health and frailty. Besides that participants will be able to identify if functional conditions of feeding are associated with frailty in independently-living older Brazilians.In Brazil, the FIBRA Study (Frailty in Brazilian Elderly Individuals), is a multicenter, multidisciplinary research dedicated to studying frailty and its association with sociodemographic variables, health status, cognition, oral health and psychossocial function. For this cross-sectional study, it was used data from a convenience sample of six municipalities with different sociodemographic characteristics and from 2343 randomly selected subjects aged 65 or more without cognitive impairment. The outcome was frailty. The functional conditions of feeding was assessed by self-report and was created by the sun of ten questions regarding problems with mastigation and swallowing. The cut-off point was the identification of three or more difficulties regarding these conditions. Almost ten percent of older subjects (9.1%) were classified as frail and 51.8% as pre-frail. The multilevel analysis showed that older people who were frail were more likely to have three or more problems with functional conditions of feeding (OR=2,06), to be older (OR = 2,88), not to work (OR = 2,31), to be depressed (OR = 2,31) and to self-report poor overall health compared to peers (OR = 3,91). The results suggest that functional conditions of feeding are associated with frailty considering the individual level. The contextual level did not show any variation due to the lower number of municipalities included. |
