Kim Yeon-Ha, Cho Chung-Min
College of Nursing, Korea National University of Transportation, 61 Daehak-ro, Jeungpyeong-gun, Chungbuk, South Korea.
College of Nursing, Sungshin Women's University, Dobong-ro, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
Iran J Public Health. 2022 Mar;51(3):596-605. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v51i3.8936.
We explored the potential mediating role of frailty in the relationship between depression and falls.
The participants were 1,408 community-dwelling older people living alone in South Korea. The potential mediating role of frailty in the relationship between depression and falls was evaluated through univariate and multivariate logistic regression. Baron and Kenny's three-step criteria for mediation were used to examine the mediating effect.
Frailty fully mediated the association between severe depression and falls in univariate (t=11.58, <.05) and multivariate (t=10.42, <.05) analyses.
Frailty is a valuable target for fall interventions in severely depressed older people living alone.
我们探讨了衰弱在抑郁症与跌倒之间关系中的潜在中介作用。
研究对象为韩国1408名独居的社区老年人。通过单因素和多因素逻辑回归评估衰弱在抑郁症与跌倒关系中的潜在中介作用。采用Baron和Kenny的三步中介标准来检验中介效应。
在单因素分析（t = 11.58，P <.05）和多因素分析（t = 10.42，P <.05）中，衰弱完全介导了重度抑郁症与跌倒之间的关联。
对于独居的重度抑郁老年人，衰弱是跌倒干预的一个有价值的靶点。
