ArticleFrontiers in aging2026
Development of the social frailty scale for older adults under pandemic-related social restrictions.
Article in Frontiers in aging, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Social frailty, a key dimension of the multidimensional assessment of frailty, has been linked to poor health outcomes and poorer quality of life in older adults. However, definitions and measurements of social frailty vary and most do not provide assessments of reliability or validity. This study sought to identify the core components associated with social frailty and to create a reliable, valid social frailty scale. Methods: This study adopts a psychometric approach to develop a social frailty scale for use in a community context under pandemic-related social restrictions. Systematic searching, content analysis, and a modified Delphi method were applied to develop a draft of a social frailty scale. Item-analysis, explorative factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability analysis were used to test scale properties. The subjects were older adults above 65 years old who live in Taiwan, and 446 people in total were interviewed to collect data. Results: The results indicated that five factors (two types of social support, social participation, social networks, and loneliness) and 16 items formed a social frailty scale with appropriate reliability and validity. This study advances our understanding of core components of social frailty. Discussion: The social frailty scale integrates several social frailty instruments to detect social frailty in community context.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.