Exploring participant attrition in a longitudinal follow-up of older adults: the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) Hamilton cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We explored the magnitude of attrition, its pattern and risk factors for different forms of attrition in the cohort from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Participants were recruited from physician practices in Hamilton, Ontario.

Participants

Postmenopausal women aged ≥55 years who had consulted their primary care physician within the last 2 years.

Outcome measures

Time to all-cause, non-death, death, preventable and non-preventable attrition.

Results

All 3985 women enrolled in the study were included in the analyses. The mean age of the cohort was 69.4 (SD: 8.9) years. At the end of the follow-up, 30.2% (1206/3985) of the study participants had either died or were lost to fo

SUBMITTER: Okpara C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature