Comparison of Frailty Assessment Tools for Older Thai Individuals at the Out-Patient Clinic of the Family Medicine Department

Pimonpan Rattanapattanakul, Adchara Prommaban and Peerasak Lerttrakarnnon ()
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Pimonpan Rattanapattanakul: Geriatric Medical Center, Excellent Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Adchara Prommaban: Aging and Aging Palliative Care Research Cluster, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Peerasak Lerttrakarnnon: Aging and Aging Palliative Care Research Cluster, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-11

Abstract: This study evaluated the validity of the screening tools used to evaluate the frailty status of older Thai people. A cross-sectional study of 251 patients aged 60 years or more in an out-patient department was conducted using the Frailty Assessment Tool of the Thai Ministry of Public Health (FATMPH) and the Frail Non-Disabled (FiND) questionnaire, and the results were compared with Fried’s Frailty Phenotype (FFP). The validity of the data acquired using each method was evaluated by examining their sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and Cohen’s kappa coefficient. Most of the participants were female (60.96%), and most were between 60 and 69 years old (65.34%). The measured prevalences of frailty were 8.37%, 17.53%, and 3.98% using FFP, FATMPH, and FiND tools, respectively. FATMP had a sensitivity of 57.14%, a specificity of 86.09%, a PPV of 27.27%, and an NPV of 95.65%. FiND had a sensitivity of 19.05%, a specificity of 97.39%, a PPV of 40.00%, and an NPV of 92.94%. The results of the Cohen’s kappa comparison of these two tools and FFP were 0.298 for FATMPH and 0.147 for FiND. The predictive values of both FATMPH and FiND were insufficient for assessing frailty in a clinical setting. Additional research on other frailty tools is necessary to improve the accuracy of frailty screening in the older population of Thailand.

Keywords: frailty; frailty assessment tools; out-patient; older patients; Thai older patients (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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