Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.

There is an increased interest of individuals in quantifying their own health and functional status. The aim of this study was to examine the concordance of answers to a self-administered questionnaire exploring health and functional status with information collected during a full clinical examinati...

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Main Authors: Olivier Beauchet, Cyrille P Launay, Christine Merjagnan, Anastasiia Kabeshova, Cédric Annweiler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072604?pdf=render
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author Olivier Beauchet
Cyrille P Launay
Christine Merjagnan
Anastasiia Kabeshova
Cédric Annweiler
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description There is an increased interest of individuals in quantifying their own health and functional status. The aim of this study was to examine the concordance of answers to a self-administered questionnaire exploring health and functional status with information collected during a full clinical examination performed by a physician among cognitively healthy adults (CHI) and older patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease (AD).Based on cross-sectional design, a total of 60 older adults (20 CHI, 20 patients with MCI, and 20 patients with mild-to-moderate AD) were recruited in the memory clinic of Angers, France. All participants completed a self-administered questionnaire in paper format composed of 33 items exploring age, gender, nutrition, place of living, social resources, drugs daily taken, memory complaint, mood and general feeling, fatigue, activities of daily living, physical activity and history of falls. Participants then underwent a full clinical examination by a physician exploring the same domains.High concordance between the self-administered questionnaire and physician's clinical examination was showed. The few divergences were related to cognitive status, answers of AD and MCI patients to the self-administered questionnaire being less reliable than those of CHI.Older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status, regardless of their cognitive status. This result needs to be confirmed and opens new perspectives for the quantified self-trend and could be helpful in daily clinical practice of primary care.
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spelling doaj.art-3734b20bb96f4ea785ad94f954a992632022-12-21T20:48:08ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0196e10063610.1371/journal.pone.0100636Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.Olivier BeauchetCyrille P LaunayChristine MerjagnanAnastasiia KabeshovaCédric AnnweilerThere is an increased interest of individuals in quantifying their own health and functional status. The aim of this study was to examine the concordance of answers to a self-administered questionnaire exploring health and functional status with information collected during a full clinical examination performed by a physician among cognitively healthy adults (CHI) and older patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease (AD).Based on cross-sectional design, a total of 60 older adults (20 CHI, 20 patients with MCI, and 20 patients with mild-to-moderate AD) were recruited in the memory clinic of Angers, France. All participants completed a self-administered questionnaire in paper format composed of 33 items exploring age, gender, nutrition, place of living, social resources, drugs daily taken, memory complaint, mood and general feeling, fatigue, activities of daily living, physical activity and history of falls. Participants then underwent a full clinical examination by a physician exploring the same domains.High concordance between the self-administered questionnaire and physician's clinical examination was showed. The few divergences were related to cognitive status, answers of AD and MCI patients to the self-administered questionnaire being less reliable than those of CHI.Older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status, regardless of their cognitive status. This result needs to be confirmed and opens new perspectives for the quantified self-trend and could be helpful in daily clinical practice of primary care.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072604?pdf=render
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Anastasiia Kabeshova
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Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
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title Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
title_full Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
title_fullStr Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
title_full_unstemmed Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
title_short Quantified self and comprehensive geriatric assessment: older adults are able to evaluate their own health and functional status.
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