Relationship between chronic pain, depressive symptoms, and functional disability in community-dwelling older adults: mediating role of frailty

Autor: Flávia Silva Arbex Borim, Daniela de Assumpção, Mônica Sanches Yassuda, Henrique Trajano de Moraes Costa, Samila Sathler Tavares Batistoni, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Richard C. Oude Voshaar, Ivan Aprahamian
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Einstein (São Paulo), Vol 21 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2317-6385
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2023ao0284
Popis: ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the direct and indirect effects of chronic pain, depressive symptoms, frailty components, and functional disability through a pathway analysis approach in a sample of community-dwelling older adults. Methods Data of 419 participants were cross-sectionally evaluated for the presence of depressive symptoms (Geriatric Depression Scale [15 items]), physical frailty components (phenotype criteria), chronic pain, and limitations in performing instrumental activities of daily living (functional disability scale by Lawton and Brody). Structural equation modeling via path analysis was used to explore the direct and indirect effects among these four variables. Statistical significance was set at p
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