TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing Frailty in Chinese Nursing Home Older Adults
T2 - A Comparison between the Frail-NH Scale and Frailty Index
AU - Ge, F.
AU - Liu, Minhui
AU - Tang, Siyuan
AU - Lu, Y.
AU - Szanton, S. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Fundings: This project was supported by Summer Health Research Fellowship of Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association Yale-China Association (Grant 2018-XYOAA-1).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Serdi and Springer-Verlag International SAS, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Objective: (1)To establish appropriate FRAIL-NH cutoff points in nursing homes in Mainland China;(2)To compare the FRAIL-NH scale and Frailty Index in assessing frailty prevalence and associated factors in nursing homes. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Six nursing homes in Changsha, China. Participants: A total of 302 residents aged 60 years or older (mean aged 82.71±8.49, 71.2% female). Measurements: Frailty was assessed using the 34-item Frailty Index and the FRAIL-NH scale. Results: The appropriate FRAIL-NH cutoff points to classify frail status and frailest status were 1.5 (87.6% sensitivity, 63.3% specificity) and 7.5 (94.1% sensitivity, 73.4% specificity), respectively. Based on the FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index, 69.5% (48% for frail and 21.5% for frailest), and 66.5% (60.9% for frail and 5.6% for frailest) of residents were at risk of frailty, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference in the total frailty prevalence assessed by FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index (χ2=0.617, P=0.432). The FRAIL-NH Scale is significantly associated with the Frailty Index (correlation coefficient (r) = 0.74, P < 0.001), but there was a Kappa agreement of 0.39 for frailty classification between the FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index, with the Frailty Index classifying a larger number of individuals as frail. When using FRAIL-NH scale, disease and self-reported health status were associated with frail and frailest status while age was just associated with frailest status. regarding the Frailty Index, age, diseases, medications and self-reported health status were associated with frail and frailest status. Conclusion: The FRAIL-NH is a simple and effective tool to assess the overall frailty rate in nursing homes, and the Frailty Index may be more suitable capturing the multidimensionality of frailty at an individual level. Careful consideration in the selection of a frailty instrument, based on the intended purpose, is necessary.
AB - Objective: (1)To establish appropriate FRAIL-NH cutoff points in nursing homes in Mainland China;(2)To compare the FRAIL-NH scale and Frailty Index in assessing frailty prevalence and associated factors in nursing homes. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Six nursing homes in Changsha, China. Participants: A total of 302 residents aged 60 years or older (mean aged 82.71±8.49, 71.2% female). Measurements: Frailty was assessed using the 34-item Frailty Index and the FRAIL-NH scale. Results: The appropriate FRAIL-NH cutoff points to classify frail status and frailest status were 1.5 (87.6% sensitivity, 63.3% specificity) and 7.5 (94.1% sensitivity, 73.4% specificity), respectively. Based on the FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index, 69.5% (48% for frail and 21.5% for frailest), and 66.5% (60.9% for frail and 5.6% for frailest) of residents were at risk of frailty, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference in the total frailty prevalence assessed by FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index (χ2=0.617, P=0.432). The FRAIL-NH Scale is significantly associated with the Frailty Index (correlation coefficient (r) = 0.74, P < 0.001), but there was a Kappa agreement of 0.39 for frailty classification between the FRAIL-NH and Frailty Index, with the Frailty Index classifying a larger number of individuals as frail. When using FRAIL-NH scale, disease and self-reported health status were associated with frail and frailest status while age was just associated with frailest status. regarding the Frailty Index, age, diseases, medications and self-reported health status were associated with frail and frailest status. Conclusion: The FRAIL-NH is a simple and effective tool to assess the overall frailty rate in nursing homes, and the Frailty Index may be more suitable capturing the multidimensionality of frailty at an individual level. Careful consideration in the selection of a frailty instrument, based on the intended purpose, is necessary.
KW - China
KW - FRAIL-NH
KW - Frailty Index
KW - nursing home
KW - older adults
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U2 - 10.1007/s12603-019-1156-3
DO - 10.1007/s12603-019-1156-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 30820519
AN - SCOPUS:85060629905
SN - 1279-7707
VL - 23
SP - 291
EP - 298
JO - Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging
JF - Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging
IS - 3
ER -