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Moderate hearing loss is related with social frailty in a community-dwelling older adults: The Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS)

Authors
Yoo, M | Kim, S | Kim, BS | Yoo, J | Lee, S | Jang, HC | Cho, BL | Son, SJ  | Lee, JH | Park, YS | Roh, E | Kim, HJ | Lee, SG | Kim, BJ | Kim, MJ | Won, CW
Citation
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 83. : 126-130, 2019
Journal Title
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
ISSN
0167-49431872-6976
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether hearing loss is associated with social frailty in older adults.
METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of cohort study data. Hearing was measured using of Pure-tone audiometry. Hearing loss was determined based on the average of hearing thresholds at 0.5, 1, and 2 kHz in the ear that had better hearing. Social frailty was defined based on the summation of the following 5 social components (1. Neighborhood meeting attendance 2. Talking to friend(s) sometimes 3.Someone gives you love and affection 4. Living alone 5. Meeting someone every day). Participants who had no correspondence to the components were considered non-social frailty: those with 1-2 components were considered social prefrailty: and those having 3 or more components were considered social frailty.
RESULTS: The prevalence of non-social frailty, social prefrailty, social frailty was 27.6%, 60.7% and 11.7% respectively. Of the five questions, two components (Neighborhood meeting attendance and Presence of someone who shows love and affection to the participants) were associated with hearing loss (p < 0.001). Compared to non-social frailty, the odds ratio of social frailty for hearing loss was 2.24 (95% CI 1.48-3.38) after adjusting for age, residential area, economic status, smoking, depressive disorder and MMSE, and 2.17 (95% CI 1.43-3.30) after further adjustments with physical frailty.
CONCLUSION: Hearing loss was associated with social frailty even after controlling confounding factors even including physical frailty.
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DOI
10.1016/j.archger.2019.04.004
PMID
31003135
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Journal Papers > School of Medicine / Graduate School of Medicine > Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
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손, 상준
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