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Table 1 Prevalence of components for social, mental and physical frailty in SLAS-1 Chinese older adults

From: A bio-psycho-social approach for frailty amongst Singaporean Chinese community-dwelling older adults – evidence from the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study

Variables

Total

Physical Frailty (PF)

Mental Frailty (MF)

Social Frailty (SF)

N = 2387 (%)

No PF (N = 1233)

PF (N = 1154)

p

No MF (N = 1730)

MF (N = 657)

p

No SF (N = 1949)

SF (N = 438)

p

Fried Shrinking

209 (8.8)

0 (0.0)

209 (18.1)

< 0.001

127 (7.3)

82 (12.5)

< 0.001

146 (7.5)

63 (14.4)

< 0.001

Fried Low Physical Activity

635 (26.6)

0 (0.0)

635 (55.0)

< 0.001

439 (25.4)

196 (29.8)

0.028

495 (25.4)

140 (32.0)

0.005

Fried Weak

471 (19.7)

0 (0.0)

471 (40.8)

< 0.001

256 (14.8)

215 (32.7)

< 0.001

316 (16.2)

155 (35.4)

< 0.001

Fried Slow

77 (3.2)

0 (0.0)

77 (6.7)

< 0.001

29 (1.7)

48 (7.3)

< 0.001

42 (2.2)

35 (8.0)

< 0.001

Fried Exhaust

206 (8.6)

0 (0.0)

206 (17.9)

< 0.001

73 (4.2)

133 (20.2)

< 0.001

147 (7.5)

59 (13.5)

< 0.001

Cognitive Impairment

282 (11.8)

77 (6.2)

205 (17.8)

< 0.001

0 (0.0)

282 (42.9)

< 0.001

141 (7.2)

141 (32.2)

< 0.001

Low Mood

430 (18.0)

164 (13.3)

266 (23.1)

< 0.001

0 (0.0)

430 (65.5)

< 0.001

314 (16.1)

116 (26.5)

< 0.001

Poor Health Status

59 (2.5)

15 (1.2)

44 (3.8)

< 0.001

0 (0.0)

59 (9.0)

< 0.001

38 (2.0)

21 (4.8)

0.001

Live Alone

174 (7.3)

79 (6.4)

95 (8.2)

0.087

114 (6.6)

60 (9.1)

0.033

61 (3.1)

113 (25.8)

< 0.001

No Education

453 (19.0)

169 (13.7)

284 (24.6)

< 0.001

211 (12.2)

242 (36.8)

< 0.001

215 (11.0)

238 (54.3)

< 0.001

Infrequent Contact

487 (20.4)

215 (17.4)

272 (23.6)

< 0.001

296 (17.1)

191 (29.1)

< 0.001

246 (12.6)

241 (55.0)

< 0.001

Infrequent Social Activities

326 (13.7)

158 (12.8)

168 (14.6)

0.215

226 (13.1)

100 (15.2)

0.170

174 (8.9)

152 (34.7)

< 0.001

Financial Difficulty

234 (9.8)

110 (8.9)

124 (10.8)

0.134

127 (7.3)

107 (16.3)

< 0.001

98 (5.0)

136 (31.1)

< 0.001

Absence of Confidant

117 (4.9)

34 (2.8)

83 (7.2)

< 0.001

58 (3.4)

59 (9.0)

< 0.001

27 (1.4)

90 (20.6)

< 0.001

Socio-economic Deprivation

150 (6.3)

35 (2.8)

115 (10.0)

< 0.001

62 (3.6)

88 (13.4)

< 0.001

31 (1.6)

119 (27.2)

< 0.001

  1. Footnotes: Independent sample t-tests were conducted for continuous variables, chi-square for categorical variables