Agreement between standard and self-reported assessments of physical frailty syndrome and its components in a registry of community-dwelling older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability to identify frail older adults using a self-reported version of the physical frailty phenotype (PFP) that has been validated with the standard PFP could facilitate physical frailty detection in clinical settings.

Methods

We collected data from volunteers (N = 182), ages 65 years and older, in an aging research registry in Baltimore, Maryland. Measurements included: standard PFP (walking speed, grip strength, weight loss, activity, exhaustion); and self-reported questions about walking and handgrip strength. We compared objectively-measured gait speed and grip strength to self-reported questions using Cohen's Kappa and diagnostic accuracy tests. We used these measures to compare the standard PFP with self-reported versions of the PFP, focusing on a dich

SUBMITTER: Buta B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9403951 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature