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Impairment in the activities of daily living in older adults with and without osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and chronic back pain: a secondary analysis of population-based health survey data

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, March 2016
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Title
Impairment in the activities of daily living in older adults with and without osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and chronic back pain: a secondary analysis of population-based health survey data
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-0994-y
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Tanja Alexandra Stamm, Karin Pieber, Richard Crevenna, Thomas Ernst Dorner

Abstract

Independence in performing activities of daily living (ADLs) is a central aspect of functioning. Older adults frequently experience impairments and limitations in functioning in various life areas. The aim of this survey was to explore the limitations in the ADLs in older adults in a population-based survey in Austria. A population-based cross-sectional study in 3097 subjects aged ≥65 years who were included in the Austrian health interview survey was performed. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate frequencies of problems in the ADLs. A principal component analysis was applied to analyze the main dimensions of 19 ADL items. Binary logistic regression models were used with the ADL dimensions as the dependent variables and osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, osteoporosis, sex, education level, anxiety or depression, age and pain intensity as independent variables. People with musculoskeletal conditions were significantly more often affected by ADL problems than people without these diseases. The ADL domain which caused problems in the highest proportion of people was "doing heavy housework" (43.9 %). It was followed by the ADL domains "bending or kneeling down" (39.3 %), "climbing stairs up and down without walking aids" (23.1 %), and "walking 500 m without walking aids" (22.8 %). The principal components analysis revealed four dimensions of ADLs: (1) intense "heavy burden" ADLs, (2) basic instrumental ADLs, (3) basic ADLs and (3) hand-focused ADLs. The proportion of subjects who had problems with the respective dimensions was 58.2, 29.2, 23.0, and 9.2 %. Anxiety/depression (greatest effect), followed by the chronic musculoskeletal disease itself, female sex, higher age and pain intensity were significant predictors of ADL problems. This population-based survey indicates that older people have considerable ADL problems. More attention should be paid to the high impact of pain intensity, anxiety and depression on ADLs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 213 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 38 18%
Student > Master 33 15%
Researcher 18 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 8%
Other 13 6%
Other 35 16%
Unknown 59 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 53 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 39 18%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Psychology 9 4%
Engineering 7 3%
Other 26 12%
Unknown 70 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2023.
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#6,881,352
of 25,287,709 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1,239
of 4,387 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,660
of 308,098 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#23
of 85 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 4,387 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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