Neri Anita Liberalesso, Yassuda Mônica Sanches, Araújo Ludgleydson Fernandes de, Eulálio Maria do Carmo, Cabral Benedita Edina, Siqueira Maria Eliane Catunda de, Santos Geraldine Alves dos, Moura José Guilherme de Arruda
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2013 Apr;29(4):778-92.
A study was designed to identify conditions of frailty in relation to social, demographic, health, cognitive, functional, and psychosocial variables in community-dwelling elderly. The article presents the methodology and preliminary data. A total of 3,478 elderly (65 years and older) were selected from probabilistic samples of seven Brazilian cities chosen by convenience and participated in a data collection session in a community setting. The following characteristics predominated: women (67.7%), married (48%) or widowed (36.4%), living with a son or daughter and family (52.6%), head of family (64.5%), and 1-4 years of schooling (49%); 28.8% were illiterate and 24.8% presented a cognitive deficit; 9.1% were frail, 51.8% pre-frail, and 39.1% non-frail. There were more frail individuals among women, those 80 years or older, the widowed, the illiterate, those who had never attended school, and those with cognitive deficit. In general, the social and demographic data corroborate Brazilian epidemiological studies, while those on frailty, cognitive status, and schooling corroborate the international literature.
一项研究旨在确定社区居住老年人中与社会、人口统计学、健康、认知、功能和心理社会变量相关的衰弱状况。本文介绍了研究方法和初步数据。从七个巴西城市的概率样本中，通过便利抽样选取了总共3478名65岁及以上的老年人，他们在社区环境中参与了一次数据收集活动。以下特征较为突出：女性（67.7%）、已婚（48%）或丧偶（36.4%）、与儿子或女儿及家人同住（52.6%）、户主（64.5%）、接受过1 - 4年教育（49%）；28.8%为文盲，24.8%存在认知缺陷；9.1%为衰弱，51.8%为衰弱前期，39.1%为非衰弱。女性、80岁及以上者、丧偶者、文盲、从未上学的人以及有认知缺陷的人中衰弱个体更多。总体而言，社会和人口统计学数据证实了巴西的流行病学研究，而关于衰弱、认知状态和教育程度的数据则证实了国际文献的观点。
