Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the trauma-specific frailty index (TSFI) for geriatric trauma patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pre-traumatic frailty in geriatric trauma patients has caught attention from emergency medical workers and the assessment of it thus become one of the important aspects of risk management. Several tools are available to identify frailty, but limited tools have been validated for geriatric trauma patients in China to assess pre-traumatic frailty.The aim of this study is to translate the Trauma-Specific Frailty Index(TSFI) into Chinese, and to evaluate the reliability and validity of the translated version in geriatric trauma patients.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted. The TSFI was translated with using the Brislin model, that included forward and backward translation. A total of 184 geriatric trauma patients were recruited by a convenience sampling bet

SUBMITTER: Bai DX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10546729 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature