Self-rated frailty, resilience, and mortality of old men: the Manitoba follow-up study
| dc.contributor.author | Sachs, Elizabeth | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Swift, Audrey (Community Health Sciences) St. John, Philip (Internal Medicine) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Tate, Robert (Community Health Sciences) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-03T19:25:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-03T19:25:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-04-02 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2019-04-02T16:48:52Z | en |
| dc.degree.discipline | Community Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Older adults self-rating of frailty, an experience that results in increased risk of disability, hospitalization, and mortality, was examined in this thesis. The objectives were to assess the validity of self-rated frailty, examine the possibility of recovering from a frail state (i.e evidence for resiliency), and determine whether self-rated frailty relates to mortality. The Clinical Frailty Scale was used as a simple self-rating of frailty among 146 male participants of a cohort study of aging, the Manitoba Follow-up Study. Self-ratings of “moderate-severe” frailty were associated with worse measures of physical health and functional impairment, thus supporting the validity of self-rated frailty. The proportion of men who reported an improvement in their self-rated frailty over one or two years was significant (p<0.05). The Hazard Ratio for mortality was 3.3 (95% CI: 1.5, 7.1) for those who rated themselves as “mildly to severely frail” vs. “very fit or well, with no disease”. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | May 2019 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33815 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Frailty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Old men | en_US |
| dc.subject | Manitoba Follow-up Study | en_US |
| dc.title | Self-rated frailty, resilience, and mortality of old men: the Manitoba follow-up study | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |