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Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research 8/2013

01-10-2013

Explaining quality of life of older people in the Netherlands using a multidimensional assessment of frailty

Auteurs: Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Katrien G. Luijkx, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 8/2013

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Abstract

Purpose

Although frailty was originally a medical concept, nowadays more and more researchers are convinced of its multidimensional nature, including a psychological and social domain of frailty as well as a physical domain. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the prediction of quality of life by physical frailty components is improved by adding psychological and social frailty components.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of Dutch citizens. A total of 1,031 people aged 65 years and older completed a Web-based questionnaire containing the Tilburg Frailty Indicator for measuring physical, psychological, and social frailty, and the WHOQOL-BREF for measuring four quality of life domains (physical health, psychological, social relations, environmental).

Results

The findings show that the prediction of all quality of life domains by eight physical components of frailty was improved after adding four psychological and three social frailty components. The psychological frailty component ‘feeling down’ significantly improved the prediction of all four quality of life domains, after controlling for the effects of background characteristics and all other frailty components.

Conclusion

This study emphasizes the importance of a multidimensional assessment of frailty in the prediction of quality of life in older people.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Explaining quality of life of older people in the Netherlands using a multidimensional assessment of frailty
Auteurs
Robbert J. J. Gobbens
Katrien G. Luijkx
Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
Publicatiedatum
01-10-2013
Uitgeverij
Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 8/2013
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-012-0341-1

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