Assessment of diagnostics tools for sarcopenia severity using the item response theory (IRT)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F16%3A10322437" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/16:10322437 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11510/16:10322437 RIV/00216208:11120/16:43912984

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12603-016-0713-2" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12603-016-0713-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12603-016-0713-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12603-016-0713-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of diagnostics tools for sarcopenia severity using the item response theory (IRT)

Original language description

Objective: To use the item response theory (IRT) methods to examine the degree to which the four selected tools reflect sarcopenia and to arrange them according to their ability to estimate sarcopenia severity. Design: A cross-sectional study aimed at verifying the possibilities of using diagnostic tools for sarcopenia. Setting and Participants: The study included residents living in an assisted living unit at the Senior Centre in Blansko (South Moravia, Czech Republic) (n=77). Sarcopenia was estimated according to the proposals of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) using calf circumference, the EWGSOP algorithm, hand grip strength, and the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). Results: The results from the IRT model showed that these four methods indicate strong unidimensionality so that they measure the same latent variable. The methods ranked according to the discrimination level ranging from high to low discrimination where the calf circumference was the most discriminatory (Hi = 0.86) and the SPPB together with hand grip strength were the least discriminatory (both Hi = 0.44). Conclusion: We are recommending to identify mild sarcopenia by SPPB or hand grip strength, moderate sarcopenia by the EWGSOP algorithm and severe sarcopenia by the calf circumference

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/NT13705" target="_blank" >NT13705: Development of system and software for structured functional assessment, collecting and processing data on long-term care, its quality and demand</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

ISSN

1279-7707

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

1051-1055

UT code for WoS article

000392943300011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84961190697