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Table 2 EXPRESS Study assessments and cutoff criteria

From: The EXPRESS Study: Exercise and Protein Effectiveness Supplementation Study supporting autonomy in community dwelling frail older people‐study protocol for a randomized controlled pilot and feasibility study

EXPRESS Study assessments

Cut-off criteria

Demographic information

Charslon Comorbity Index

≤3 low risk

4–5 moderate risk

≥6 high risk

Rapid Cognitive Screen

8–10 normal

6–7 mild impaired

5 dementia

Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form

12–14 normal

8–11 at-risk

0–7 malnourished

FRAIL Screen

0 robust

1–2 pre-frail

≥3 frail

Katz Activitis of Daily Living

6 full function

4 moderately impaired

≤2 severely impaired

Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

0–3 high depended

4–6 moderate dependent

7–8 independent

Short-Form Health Survey-36

Geriatric Depression Scale-5

≥2 answers: depression

Trail Making Test

Part A: >78 s deficient

Part B: >273 s deficient

Nutritional recall

Gait speed

♂ 0.65/0.76 m/s (≤173/>173 cm)

♀ 0.65/0.76 m/s (≤159/>159 cm)

Grip strength

♂ 29–32 kg according to BMI

♀17–21 kg according to BMI

Short Performance Physical Battery

Limitation: 0–3 severe, 4–6 moderate, 7–9 mild, 10–12 minimal

Timed Up and Go

<12 s normal mobility

≥12 s limited mobility

Bioelectrical impedance analyses

 

Accelerometer

Low activity ♂ <383 kcal/week

Low activity ♀ <270 kcal/week

  1. ♂ male ♀ female