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ArticleEuropean journal of public health2019

Association between physical, psychological and social frailty and health-related quality of life among older people.

Xuxi Zhang, Siok Swan Tan, Carmen Betsy Franse, Tamara Alhambra-Borrás, Estrella Durá-Ferrandis, Lovorka Bilajac, Athina Markaki, Arpana Verma, Francesco Mattace-Raso, Antonius J J Voorham and 1 more

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Article in European journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 authors.

Xuxi ZhangDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Siok Swan TanDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Carmen Betsy FranseDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Tamara Alhambra-BorrásPolibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Estrella Durá-FerrandisPolibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Lovorka BilajacDepartment of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
Athina MarkakiAlliance for Integrated Care, Athens, Greece.
Arpana VermaManchester Urban Collaboration on Health, Centre for Epidemiology, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Francesco Mattace-RasoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Antonius J J VoorhamRotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Research Centre Innovation in Care, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Hein RaatDepartment of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundStudies on the association between frailty and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are scarce and show contradictory results. This study aimed to evaluate the association between physical, psychological and social frailty and HRQoL among community-dwelling older people.

methodsA cross-sectional study was performed with baseline data collected in 2015 from the Urban Health Centers Europe (UHCE) project in five European countries, the United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, The Netherlands and Spain. A total of 2325 participants were included in the baseline measurements of the Urban Health Centers Europe project; 2167 participants (mean age = 79.7; SD=5.6) were included in the analyses after excluding participants with missing data. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator measured overall frailty as well as physical, psychological and social frailty. The 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey was used to measured physical and mental HRQoL.

resultsRegarding physical HRQoL, a large difference (d=1.29) between physically and not physically frail participants was observed. Regarding mental HRQoL, a large difference (d=1.20) between psychologically and not psychologically frail participants was observed. In the full model with all three domains of frailty and the covariates to explain physical HRQoL, physical (P <0.001) and social frailty (P <0.001) remained significant. In the full model to explain mental HRQoL, all three domains of frailty remained significant (P <0.001).

conclusionPhysical frailty had the strongest association with physical HRQoL, and psychological frailty had the strongest association with mental HRQoL. The associations between social frailty and both physical and mental HRQoL remain significant when controlling for physical and psychological frailty.

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Emotional AdjustmentHealth StatusSocial SupportAgedAged, 80 and overCroatiaFemaleFrail ElderlyGreeceHealth SurveysHumansMaleNetherlandsQuality of LifeSpainUnited Kingdom

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