Predictores de fragilidad en usuarios mayores de Atención Primaria de Salud

Objective: to identify the prevalence and predictors of frailty in older people in Primary Health Care. Method: this is a descriptive and correlational study, carried out in a convenience sample of 136 older people in the community. Data were collected through a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire and frailty phenotype. Student’s t test or U-Mann-Whitney test, chi-square and binary logistic regression were used for data analysis. Results: the prevalence of frailty was 26.5% (n=36). Frail individuals had older age (p=0.011), worse self-rated health (p=0.001) and lower physical capacity (p