Development of a Brief Assessment Tool to Evaluate Early Low Nutrition Risk in Community Elderly: Creation of the Tool and Examination of Its Reliability and Criterion-related Validity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, a simple assessment tool to evaluate early low nutrition risk in general older population has not been available. This study aimed to create such a tool and examined its reliability and criterion-related validity.

Methods

1,192 community elderly with a mean age of 74.7 (standard deviation, 5.8) years responded to a questionnaire consisting of 48 (Hatoyama) or 34 items (Kusatsu), which have been reported to be associated with nutritional state in older people. Item analysis was conducted on the 34 common items, and items were selected based on the following criteria: adequate pass rates and discriminative power, no gender and regional differences, and a certain level of commonality based on factor analysis. Next, the factor structure of the candidate items

SUBMITTER: Shinkai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11706674 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature