Determinants of frailty in primary care patients with COPD: the Greek UNLOCK study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 1 The “Frail non-Disabled” (FiND) questionnaire

Domain	Questions	Answers	Score
Disability	A. Have you any difficulties at walking 400 m?	a. No or some difficulties	0
Disability	A. Have you any difficulties at walking 400 m?	b. A lot of difficulties or unable	1
	B. Have you any difficulties at climbing up a flight of stairs?	a. No or some difficulties	0
		b. A lot of difficulties or unable	1
Frailty	C. During the last year, have you involuntarily lost more than 4.5 kg?	a. No	0
Frailty		b. Yes	1
	D. How often in the last week did you feel than everything you did was an effort or that you could not get going?	a. Rarely or sometime (twice or less/week)	0
		b. Often or almost always (3 or more times per week)	1
	E. Which is your level of physical activity?	a. Regular physical activity (at least 2–4 h per week)	0
	E. Which is your level of physical activity?	b. None or mainly sedentary	1

Items A and B define disability domains and items C, D and E define frailty domains. If A + B ≥ 1, the individual is considered as “disabled”. If A + B = 0 and C + D + E ≥ 1, the individual is considered as “frail”. Participants reporting no mobility disability as well as no frailty criterion e.g. If A + B + C + D + E = 0, are considered as “robust” (non-frail). Subjects positive for disability could also have positive frailty domains
Table adopted by Cesari et al. [20]

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