Background : According to Indonesian consencus in 2010, Indonesia is one of top five countries with biggest elderly number, estimately about 18,1 million (7,6% total citizen). As elderly physical and mental degrading progressively, they were almost fragile for any harms and diseases, and this state mostly known as frailty. Several non-communicable diseases such as chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia were often happens in elederly. This study is held to investigate the prevalence of frailty and the correlation with several chronic disease such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.
Methods : This is a cross-sectional study with 158 participants within 60-87 years old. Frailty was measured with SHARE-Fi calculator and handgrip. Where else blood pressure was measured with sfigmomanometer NOVA, and laboratory test was performed for measuring the blood sugar and blood fat. Data analysis was perfomed by using Chi-Square with confidence interval 95% (a = 0.05).
Result : sex and education level was positively associated with frailty with p =0.007 and p =0.026 respectively. Yet there were no significant association between age and frailty (p=0.359), hypertension and frailty (p=0.764), diabetes and frailty (p=0.51), and dyslipidemia and frailty (p=0.320).
Conclusion : This study showed a significant association between education level and sex toward frailty. However, there were no significant association between age and chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia) toward frailty |