Abstract
The aim of the project is to provide insight information about the capacity of different tools to detect the presence of frailty in primary care settings. This abstract focuses on the description of the baseline assessment of included individuals.
This is a multicentric (two regions of Spain: Basque Country and Andalucia) prospective cohort study of community dwelling autonomous individuals aged 70 or more.A two year follow up period is proposed. At baseline, the following variables were collected via face to face interviews: sociodemographic, frailty (TFI, GS and TUG), lifestyle habits and health status. The study has been supported by the Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III (grant PI14/01905 and PI14/01003) and authorized by the corresponding Ethics Committees.
By now, 275 included patients have a mean age of 78,3 (SD 5,1) and were almost equally distributed considering sex. The prevalence of frailty was 28,1%, being higher among women (35,4%, p<0,001) and in Andalucian participants (37,7%, p=0,001). They presented a mean Gait Speed of 0,99 m/s. (DE 0,8) and a mean of 12,4 s. (SDE 4,0) on the Timed up and go test, with worst performance among women (13,3 DS 4,5; p<0,001) and Andalucian participants (13,1 DS 4,3; p=0,005).
Frailty is highly prevalent in the studied sample. Significant differences are found considering gender and habitat. Sociocultural differences could determine these differences. The current findings made evident the need to introduce, in a systematic way in primary care settings, assessment tools able to capture frailty.