Refining Low Physical Activity Measurement Improves Frailty Assessment in Advanced Lung Disease and Survivors of Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The frail phenotype has gained popularity as a clinically relevant measure in adults with advanced lung disease and in critical illness survivors. Because respiratory disease and chronic illness can greatly limit physical activity, the measurement of participation in traditional leisure time activities as a frailty component may lead to substantial misclassification of frailty in pulmonary and critical care patients.

Objectives

To test and validate substituting the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI), a simple 12-item questionnaire, for the Minnesota Leisure Time Physical Activity (MLTA) questionnaire, a detailed questionnaire covering 18 leisure time activities, as the measure of low activity in the Fried frailty phenotype (FFP) instrument.

Methods

In separat

SUBMITTER: Baldwin MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566272 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature