TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Frailty syndrome and risks for falling in the elderly community JO - CoDAS A1 - Taguchi, Carlos Kazuo A1 - Menezes, Pedro de Lemos A1 - Melo, Amanda Caroline Souza A1 - Santana, Leonardo Santos de A1 - Conceição, Wesley Rayan Santos A1 - Souza, Gabrielle Feitosa de A1 - Araújo, Brenda Carla Lima A1 - Silva, Allan Robert da SP - e20210025 EP - e20210025 VL - 34 IS - 6 N2 - PURPOSE: To identify the prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the elderly and the relationship with risk of falling.

METHODS: Descriptive, cross-sectional, and analytical clinical study. One hundred and one volunteers over 60 years old were submitted to audiological evaluation, Dynamic Gait Index - Brazilian brief (DGI), Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Edmonton Fragility Scale (EFE) that verified, respectively, hearing thresholds, frailty syndrome, functional and dynamic balance, and risk of falling. The simple percentual distribution, the Wilcoxon´s test and the Bivariate Correlation with Pearson's coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Limits equal to or less than 1.0 and 5.0% were adopted.

RESULTS: EFE identified 22.8% of volunteers as fragile and 22.8% as vulnerable. DGI and TUG found 34.6% and 84.1% of at risk for falls, respectively. Significant correlations between EFE and DGI (p <0.01), EFE and TUG (p <0.01), and DGI and TUG (p <0.01) were observed. Pearson's coefficient between EFE and DGI, EFE and TUG, and DGI and TUG were -0.26, -0.41, and 0.46, respectively. An association between DGI and TUG and age (p <0.01) was identified. No correlation between EFE and sex or age was found.

CONCLUSION: Frailty and pre-frailty were identified in a significant segment of the volunteers, especially in the oldest subjects. Functional and dynamic balance were moderately correlated with frailty, which demonstrated that frailty syndrome increases the risk of falls.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 2317-1782 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212021025pt ID - ref1 ER -