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2015
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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Salud Elderly Fragility Health conditionsSujets proches
Factors Agents, Manufacturers' Manufacturers' representatives Family Family structure Families--Social aspects Families--Social conditions Family life Structure, Family Family relationships Relationships, Family Physical activity Warm-up Workouts (Exercise) Factors Biography--Ancestry Relations with family Biography--Descendants Biography--Family AncestryCiter ce document
Patrícia Honório Silva Santos et al., « Perfil de fragilidade e fatores associados em idosos cadastrados em uma Unidade de Saúde da Família », Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, ID : 10670/1.93jce1
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"The scope of this study was to identify the profile of fragility and associated factors among the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit. It involved an observational, exploratory, household based and crosssectional study conducted with 139 elderly individuals. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire requesting the following information: personal history, family and selfreported diseases, sociodemographic information, level of physical activity, behavior variables, number of falls in the last year, depres sive symptoms, unintentional weight loss and fatigue. Anthropometric measurements (weight and height) were also taken and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated. Descriptive analyses and Pearson’s chisquare test or Fisher’s exact test were performed, with a significance level of p < 0.05. SPSS software version 21.0 was used for sta tistical analysis. The prevalence of fragility among the elderly was: frail (16.9%), prefrail (61.8%) and nonfrail (21.3%), respectively. The fragility profile was associated with: age (p < 0.001), BMI (p = 0.018), family situation (p = 0.014), level of physical activity (p < 0.001) and falls (p = 0.043). In this study, a high prevalence was observed of prefrail and frail elderly individuals and identi fied factors associated with this syndrome."