• Atencion primaria · Dec 2020

    [Impact of frailty status on health and quality of life in Spanish older adults].

    • Irene Fernández, Trinidad Sentandreu-Mañó, and Jose M Tomas.
    • Departamento de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, España; Grupo de investigación Advanced Research Methods Applied to Quality of Life Promotion (ARMAQoL), Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, España.
    • Aten Primaria. 2020 Dec 1; 52 (10): 731-737.

    ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to evaluate the predictive power of a latent measure of frailty based on the physical indicators proposed for the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) on the quality of life and perceived health status in a representative sample of Spanish older adults.DesignDescriptive cross-sectional study.SettingSpain.ParticipantsThe sample was composed of 4,498 community-dwelling older Spanish adults aged 60 or over, extracted from wave six of SHARE.Principal MeasurementsA structural equation model was used to define the frailty factor based on the five physical indicators proposed for SHARE (mobility, appetite, fatigue, activity, and strength), and test its effects on quality of life and perceived health status.ResultsResults showed an excellent fit of the model to the data (P<.001, CFI=.977, and SRMR=.041). Frailty factor explained 39.5% of the variance in quality of life and 61.6% of the variance in perceived health.ConclusionsThe latent factor of frailty presented in this construct has an excellent fit to the data. The predictive power of frailty on the quality of life and perceived health in a sample of the Spanish population is highlighted.Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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