Frailty syndrome in no institutionalized older adults from Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico)
Objective: To determine the frailty syndrome prevalence and the associated factors to it, in no institutionalized older adults from Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico, in 2008.Material and methods: Design: cross-sectional. Universe: 2.375 older adults. Sample: randomized (p=0,9, q=0,1, Z=1,96, d=0,05)...
| Autor Principal: | Quevedo-Tejero, Elsy del Carmen |
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| Otros Autores: | Zavala-González, Marco Antonio; Asociación Latinoamericana de Profesores de Medicina Familiar A.C., Alonso-Benites, Janyf Rosalía; Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2011
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/vnimedica/article/view/16092 |
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Objective: To determine the frailty syndrome prevalence and the associated factors to it, in no institutionalized older adults from Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico, in 2008.Material and methods: Design: cross-sectional. Universe: 2.375 older adults. Sample: randomized (p=0,9, q=0,1, Z=1,96, d=0,05) 94 older adults. Sampling: randomized simple. Inclusion criterions: any sex, without cognitive diseases of known diagnosis. Variables: socio-demographics, diseases, nutritional status, functionality for basic activities of daily life, frailty syndrome.Instruments: nutrition questionnaire (Nutritional Screening Initiative), Katz scale, Barber scale.Analysis: descriptive statistic, Fisher Exact Test with 95% of confidence (p≤0.05). Software: Epi Info® version 3.3,2.Results: 94 older adults, 63% females, 37% males; mean age, 69,4±7,1 years-old; present morbility, 85%; high nutritional risk,86,2%; basic dependence for daily life, 9,6%; frailty syndrome prevalence, 98%; associated factors: nutritional risk (p=0,02).Conclusions: The frailty syndrome prevalence observed in this series was major to report for other authors. The nutritional status it’s associated to this geriatric syndrome. |
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