Predictors of frailty in older people users of Primary Health Care

Autor:	João Paulo de Almeida Tavares, Pedro Miguel Ferreira de Sá-Couto, Larissa Chaves Pedreira
Jazyk:	English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Elderly Health of the Elderly Frailty Prevalence Primary Health Care Nursing RT1-120
Zdroj:	Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, Vol 75, Iss suppl 4 (2022)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1984-0446 0034-7167
DOI:	10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1292
Popis:	ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the prevalence and predictors of frailty in older people in Primary Health Care. Method: this is a descriptive and correlational study, carried out in a convenience sample of 136 older people in the community. Data were collected through a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire and frailty phenotype. Student’s t test or U-Mann-Whitney test, chi-square and binary logistic regression were used for data analysis. Results: the prevalence of frailty was 26.5% (n=36). Frail individuals had older age (p=0.011), worse self-rated health (p=0.001) and lower physical capacity (p
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