ArticleThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2017
Association between Physical Frailty and Quality of Life in a Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling Swiss Older People.
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- The overall and domain-specific quality of life of Chinese community-dwelling older adults: the role of intrinsic capacity and disease burden.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Benefits of sustained physical activity from middle age to early old age on quality of life in early old age.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cohort Profile: The Lausanne cohort 65+ (Lc65+).International journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
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- Association between in-hospital frailty and health-related quality of life after stroke: the Nor-COAST study.BMC neurology · 2021Observational
- Age-Related Hearing Loss With Tinnitus and Physical Frailty Influence the Overall and Domain-Specific Quality of Life of Chinese Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Heterogeneous Influence of Frailty Phenotypes in Age-Related Hearing Loss and Tinnitus in Chinese Older Adults: An Explorative Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Quality of life and related demographic factors in long-term survivors of childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatricsArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThough the association between physical frailty and health is well established, little is known about its association with other domains of quality of life (QoL). This study investigated the association between physical frailty and multiple domains of QoL in community-dwelling older people.
designCross-sectional study. SETTING AND
participantsData of the 2011 annual assessment of 927 older people (age 73-77 years) from the Lc65+ cohort study were used. MEASUREMENTS: Physical frailty was assessed by Fried's five criteria: 'shrinking'; 'weakness'; 'poor endurance, exhaustion'; 'slowness'; and 'low activity'. QoL was assessed using 28 items yielding a QoL score and seven domain-specific QoL subscores (Feeling of safety; Health and mobility; Autonomy; Close entourage; Material resources; Esteem and recognition; and Social and cultural life). Low QoL (QoL score or QoL subscores in the lowest quintile) was used as dependent variable in logistic regression analyses adjusted for age and sex (model 1), and additionally for socioeconomic (model 2) and health (model 3) covariates.
resultsPhysical frailty was associated with a low QoL score, as well as decreased QoL subscores in all seven specific domains, even after adjusting for socio-economic covariates. However, when performing additional adjustment for health covariates, only the domain Health and mobility remained significantly associated with physical frailty. Among each specific Fried's criteria, 'slowness' had the strongest association with a low QoL score.
conclusionPhysical frailty is associated with all QoL domains, but these associations are largely explained by poor health characteristics. Longitudinal studies are needed to better understand temporal relationships between physical frailty, health and QoL.
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