SARCORSICA: SARC-F Questionnaire as a Screening Tool for Age-related Sarcopenia

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE · Jun 30, 2015

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Background to the research: Sarcopenia is a multifactorial geriatric syndrome with a prevalence ranging between 1 and 29% depending on age. It is defined by progressive, generalised loss of skeletal muscle, mass, force and function.

Problem statement and objectives: To confirm a simple, reproducible, screening tool, which is easy to use in the general practitioner's surgery is one of the challenges of the future.

The primary objective is to assess the sensitivity and specificity of the study screening test, the SARC-F, at a predetermined threshold of \>=4 and to change this threshold usin...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Men or women who are 65-year old or older consulting a general practitioner, regardless of initial reason for the consultation.
• • Patients agreeing to take part in the study after clear, true and appropriate information has been provided, giving their signed consent and having been given by hand a patient information sheet.
• exclusion criteria:
• • Patients with cognitive disorders suffering from major incapacity making understanding the study or signing the informed consent impossible.
• • Patients not affiliated to a Social Security system.
• • Patients suffering from acute functional problems interfering with the tests being performed (incapacity, malformation of the arm, plaster or splint).
• • Patients institutionalised in nursing homes or subacute care
• • Patients who use a technical aid for walking, unless this aid is a walking stick
• • Patients not being followed up in a general practitioner's surgery (absence of information required to carry out the analytical part)