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Title: Assessing the validity of self-rated health with the short physical performance battery: across-sectional analysis of the international mobility in aging study
metadata.dc.creator: MARIO ULISES PEREZ ZEPEDA
Emmanuelle Belanger
Maria_Victoria Zunzunegui
Susan Phillips
alban ylli
Jack Guralnik
Keywords: MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD;Ciencias médicas;Ciencias clínicas;Geriatría;Características de la población;Demografía;Estado de la salud;Evaluación geriátrica;Actividades humanas;Ejercicio (fisiología);Envejecimiento (fisiología);Geriatrics;Population characteristics;Demography;Health status;Geriatric assessment;Human activities;Exercise (physiology);Aging (physiology)
metadata.dc.date: 2016
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Description: Abstract: Objective The aim of this study was to explore the validity of self-rated health across different populations of older adults, when compared to the Short Physical Performance Battery. Design Cross-sectional analysis of the International Mobility in Aging Study. Setting Five locations: Saint-Hyacinthe and Kingston (Canada), Tirana (Albania), Manizales (Colombia), and Natal (Brazil). Participants Older adults between 65 and 74 years old (n = 1,995). Methods The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) was used to measure physical performance. Self-rated health was assessed with one single five-point question. Linear trends between SPPB scores and self-rated health were tested separately for men and women at each of the five international study sites. Poor physical performance (independent variable) (SPPB less than 8) was used in logistic regression models of self-rated health (dependent variable), adjusting for potential covariates. All analyses were stratified by gender and site of origin. Results A significant linear association was found between the mean scores of the Short Physical Performance Battery and ordinal categories of self-rated health across research sites and gender groups. After extensive control for objective physical and mental health indicators and socio-demographic variables, these graded associations became non-significant in some research sites. Conclusion These findings further confirm the validity of SRH as a measure of overall health status in older adults.
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