Mediating effect of nutritional risk between oral frailty and frailty in elderly inpatients
HU Huimin
LI Chen
LU Junwei
ZHANG Huajian
LI Jieli
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating role of nutritional risk between oral frailty and frailty in elderly inpatients.Methods A survey was conducted among a total of 382 elderly patients admitted to a tertiary grade A hospital in Wuhan,using the general information questionnaire,the Oral Frailty Index-8,the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 and the Frailty Screening Scale.Results The oral frailty score of elderly inpatients was 4.00(2.00,6.00),the nutritional risk score was 2.00(1.00,3.00),and the frailty score was 3.00(2.00,4.00).Frailty occurred in 62.57%of the patients.Oral frailty,nutritional risk,and frailty were positively correlated with each other(r1=0.337,r2=0.367,r3=0.332,P＜0.001).Nutritional risk played a partial mediating role between oral frailty and frailty in elderly inpatients,accounting for 19.47%of the total effect.Conclusion The incidence of frailty in elderly inpatients is relatively high.Nutritional risk is a mediating variable between oral frailty and frailty in elderly inpatients,suggesting that nursing staff can weaken the negative impact of oral frailty on frailty by im-proving the nutritional status of elderly inpatients,so as to reduce or delay the occurrence of frailty.
Keywords：elderlyinpatientnutritional riskoral frailtyfrailtymediating effectnursing
Publication Date：2025-09-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-11-21(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 786-789,823 )