Prevalence and risk factors of frailty among people in rural areas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Older people in rural areas are possibly more frail due to the limited medical resources and lower socioeconomic status. Given the negative healthy outcomes caused by frailty, knowing the epidemiology of frailty in rural areas is of great importance. We tried to synthesise the existing evidences for the prevalence and risk factors of frailty in rural areas.

Design

A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data sources

PubMed, Embase, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Scopus were used to identify the articles from inception to 30 April 2019.

Eligibility criteria

Observational studies providing cross-sectional data on the prevalence of frailty in rural elderly were extracted.

Data extraction and synthesis

Two independent investigators se

SUBMITTER: Xu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088244 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature