ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2024
The effect of social frailty on mental health and quality of life in older people: a cross-sectional study.
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- The relationship between social frailty and self-care ability in elderly stroke patients: the mediating role of self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Association between social frailty and quality of life in older patients with chronic heart failure: sequential multiple mediating effects of family insufficiency and social networks.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Psychological and behavioural responses to death anxiety in older adults with chronic illnesses: a systematic integrative review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Urban-Rural Differences in the Association of eHealth Literacy With Medication Adherence Among Older People With Frailty and Prefrailty: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Social support mediates social frailty with anxiety and depression.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aims to evaluate anxiety, depression, loneliness, death anxiety, and quality of life and investigate their relationship with social frailty in the geriatric population. Additionally, it aimed to identify social frailty predictors.
methodsThe study included 136 participants admitted to the geriatric outpatient clinic. The 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics (CIRS-G), the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (T-DAS), the Loneliness Scale for the Elderly (LSE), the Quality of Life Scale (CASP-19), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Test (GAD-7), the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), the FRAIL Scale, and the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) were performed. The TFI was used to collect data about social frailty.
resultsThere were 61.8% females, and the median age (min-max) was 72.2 (65.3-90.3) years. The prevalence rate of social frailty was 26.7%. The rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, death anxiety, the burden of chronic disease, and frailty were higher in the social frailty group. Furthermore, logistic regression analysis revealed a strong relationship between social frailty status and widowhood (odds ratio (OR) 6.86; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 2.42-19.37; p < 0.001), moderate to severe anxiety symptoms (OR 4.37; 95% CI 1.08-17.68; p = 0.038), and a TFI-physical frailty score (OR 1.40; 95% CI 1.12-1.73; p = 0.002).
conclusionIn older adults, the social dimension of frailty is associated with quality of life and psychological state. Physical frailty and sociodemographic characteristics may affect the development of social frailty.
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