Factors associated with the frailty syndrome in elderly individuals living in the urban area

Autor: Maycon Sousa Pegorari, Darlene Mara dos Santos Tavares
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, Vol 22, Iss 5, Pp 874-882 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1518-8345
0104-1169
DOI: 10.1590/0104-1169.0213.2493
Popis: METHODS: this cross-sectional, observational and analytical household survey was conducted with 958 elderly individuals living in the urban area. The Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment Questionnaire and Multidimensional Scales (Depression, Katz and Lawton brief geriatric versions) were used, together with the Phenotype of Frailty developed by Fried. Descriptive analysis was performed along with a bivariate and multinomial logistic regression model (p
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