Application of a Social Vulnerability Index and Its Associations with Physical Frailty and Disability in a Cross-sectional Study of Older Kenyan Women Living with and without HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social vulnerability reflects deficits in social resources that may disproportionally impact older women with HIV (WWH) in Africa.

Objective

To examine the relationship between scores on an adapted Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and measures of physical frailty and disability.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

293 women (156 HIV-positive, 137 HIV-negative) aged >40 years in Mombasa, Kenya who were recruited from the Mombasa Cohort of women with a history of transactional sex and the general community.

Measurements

Assessments including an SVI adapted for the Kenyan context (SVI-Kenya), the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and the World Health Organization Disability Assessment (WHODAS) were compared by HIV status. Linear regression was

SUBMITTER: Prabhu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278831 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature