Table 2 Overview of the demographic and general health assessment in the Korean urban rural elderly cohort study
From: The Korean urban rural elderly cohort study: study design and protocol
Classification | Measures and instruments |
|---|---|
General health and medical history | Current and past medical history, family history, subjective health status, vaccination, incontinence symptoms, falling, fracture, pain, smoking, alcohol, sleep |
Anthropometry | Height; weight; body mass index; circumference of waist, hip, thigh, and calf |
Physical activities and function | Exercise (intensity and frequency), timed up and go test, grip strength, chair-rise test |
Activities of daily living | Korean activities of daily living scale, Korean instrumental activities of daily living scale |
Depression | Five Geriatric Depression Scale from the Korean version of comprehensive geriatric assessment, Korean version of the Geriatric Depression Scale - Short Form |
Cognitive function | Korean version of Mini-Mental State Examination for dementia screening |
Nutritional status and weight | Mini-nutrition assessment, loss of appetite, changes of body weight within the prior 3 months |
Socioeconomic status | Education, occupation, household income, family income, marital status |
Social support | Social network (size, range, homophily, density, degree centrality, closeness, betweenness, walk betweenness, brokerage, and overlapping), stressful life events |