• Pedro Otones Reyes, Eva García Perea, Milagros Rico Blázquez, and Azucena Pedraz Marcos.
• San Andrés Primary Care Center, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: pedro.otones@salud.madrid.org.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2020 Dec 1; 21 (6): 530-535.

BackgroundFrailty is a frequent health condition in older adults of decreased functional reserve that leads to vulnerability to internal and external stressors. It has been associated with chronic pain, which is a common, costly and incapacitating condition in older adults.AimsTo describe frailty status in a sample of community-dwelling older adults with chronic pain attending a primary health care centre.DesignCross-sectional investigation.ParticipantsAdults aged 65 years or older with chronic pain.MethodsThe Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Frailty Instrument (SHARE-FI) was used to assess frailty status and a visual analogue scale to assess pain intensity. Descriptive and analytical statistics were performed.ResultsAmong 154 participants recruited, 20.1% were frail, 38.3% pre-frail and 41.6% robust. Women were more likely to be classified as frail or pre-frail (OR: 4.62, 95% CI: 2.23-9.59), as well as participants aged 75 years or older (OR: 3.41, 95% CI: 1.74-6.68) and participants reporting moderate and severe pain (OR: 4.20, 95% CI: 2.10-8.40). These results remained significant after adjustment.ConclusionsThere is an association between frailty status and other variables such as older age, female gender and higher pain intensity.Copyright © 2020 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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