ArticleActa endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)
ROMANIAN TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF THE SARC-F QUESTIONNAIRE.
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- Comparative Performance of SARC-F, SARC-CalF, SARC-F + EBM, and Ishii Score for Detecting Sarcopenia in Hospitalised Geriatric Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Croatian Version of the SARC-F Questionnaire for Assessing Sarcopenia in Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Validity and reliability of the Persian version of the SARC-F questionnaire among Iranian older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Sarcopenia and it's influencing factors among adults with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and tuberculosis in Penang, Malaysia.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Determinants of Social Activity Among Geriatric Patients in Northern Romania: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Arabic Adaptation and Validation of the SARC-F Questionnaire for Sarcopenia Screening in Elderly Populations: Exploration of Associated Factors.Journal of aging research · 2025Article
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the SARC-F in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Diagnostic performance of SARC-F and SARC-CalF in screening for sarcopenia in older adults in Northern Brazil.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Symptoms of Sarcopenia and Physical Fitness through the Senior Fitness Test.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextSeveral studies have addressed the impact of sarcopenia on various health outcomes. As the most critical issue is the early identification of individuals, a short screening tool may help clinicians to simply test for sarcopenia and start early management of the disease. Recently, a simple questionnaire, Sarc-F was provided that may adequately realize this aim. SUBJECTS AND
methodsTo validate the questionnaire we translated the original Sarc-F according to the recommended methodology. A total of 80 people, aged 65+ were evaluated for sarcopenia. Muscle mass, strength, and physical performance were measured. Volunteers completed the Sarc-F as well as other two questionnaires. Discriminative power, reliability, construct validity analyses, specificity, sensitivity, negative and positive predictive value evaluations were made.
resultsA good discriminative power and internal consistency were found. With the functional sarcopenia diagnostic criteria the test demonstrates a high specificity (84%). The positive and negative predictive values were: 78% and 77%. Using the more conservative diagnostic criteria the negative predictive value was: 85.4%, sufficient to rule out those not at risk of having sarcopenia and eliminate the need for further investigations.
conclusionsA valid Romanian Sarc-F questionnaire is now available to simply detect patients at risk/no risk of sarcopenia.
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