Aravindhan, Kiirtaara and Mat, Sumaiyah and Bahyah, Shahrul and Saedon, Nor Izzati and Hasmukharay, Kejal and Mahadzir, Hazlina and Khoo, Selina and Chin, Ai-Vyrn and Tan, Maw Pin (2024) Comparing four frailty assessment tools against seven-year mortality in the Malaysian elders longitudinal research study. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 118. ISSN 0167-4943, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2023.105304.
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Aim: Several frailty assessment tools are currently used in clinics and research, however, there appears to be a lack of head-to-head comparisons between these tools among older adults in developing countries. This study compared the Cardiovascular Health Study, Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, the Tilburg Frailty Indicator and the Canadian Study of Health and Aging frailty assessment tools and evaluated performance of these individual frailty assessment tools with mortality.Methods: This prospective cohort study utilized stratified simple random sampling to recruit 1614 participants from the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research aged above 55 years within the Klang Valley region from 2013 to 2015. Individual items for the frailty tools, alongside baseline physical and cognitive measures were extracted from the initial survey. Mortality data up to 31 December 2020 were obtained through data linkage from the death registry data obtained from the Malaysian National Registration Department.Results: Data were available for over 1609 participants, age (68.92 +/- 7.52) years and 57 % women, during recruitment. Mortality data revealed 13.4 % had died as of 31 December 2020. Five to 25 % of our study population fulfilled the criteria for frailty using all four frailty tools. This study found an increased risk of mortality with frailty following adjustments for potential factors of falls, total number of illnesses and cognitive impairment, alongside moderate to strong correlation and agreement between frailty tools. Conclusion: Frailty was associated with increased mortality. All four frailty assessment tools can be used to assess frailty within the Malaysian older adult population. The four available tools, however, may not be interchangeable.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Long Term Research Grant Scheme [LRGS/1/2019/UM//1/1] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Frailty; Frailty assessment; Mortality; Older adult |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science (formerly known as Centre for Sports & Exercise Sciences) |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2024 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2024 07:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/44260 |
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