Yu Shiya, Wang Jialin, Zeng Li, Yang Pengyu, Tang Ping, Su Sihui
College of Nursing, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No.1166 Liutai Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan province, 611137, China.
Sichuan Nursing Vocational College, No.173 Longdu South Road, Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Sichuan province, 610100, China.
Geriatr Nurs. 2023 Jan-Feb;49:101-108. doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.11.009. Epub 2022 Dec 2.
Social frailty is a geriatric public health problem that deeply affects healthy aging. Currently, evidence on the prevalence and factors associated with social frailty in older adults remains unclear. Our study aims to estimate the prevalence and related factors of social frailty in older adults. This study retrieved nine electronic databases searched through July 5th, 2022. The prevalence of social frailty was pooled using Stata software. It was found that older adults suffered from a "moderate" level of social frailty. We found a higher prevalence of social frailty in the United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, The Netherlands, and Spain, in people over 75 years, in hospitals, and during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We believed that countries, age, research sites, and the pandemic of COVID-19 were influencing factors of social frailty among older adults. These findings may provide a theoretical basis for the development of ameliorating social frailty among older adults.
社会脆弱性是一个严重影响健康老龄化的老年公共卫生问题。目前,关于老年人社会脆弱性的患病率及其相关因素的证据仍不明确。我们的研究旨在估计老年人社会脆弱性的患病率及其相关因素。本研究检索了截至2022年7月5日的九个电子数据库。使用Stata软件汇总社会脆弱性的患病率。结果发现老年人存在“中度”社会脆弱性。我们发现在英国、希腊、克罗地亚、荷兰和西班牙,75岁以上人群、医院中的人群以及在2019年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)期间,社会脆弱性的患病率较高。我们认为国家、年龄、研究地点和COVID-19大流行是老年人社会脆弱性的影响因素。这些发现可能为改善老年人社会脆弱性的发展提供理论依据。