The health care needs of multidimensional frail elderly patients with multimorbidity in primary health-care settings: a qualitative study

Table 1 Characteristics of the participants

Items	Groups	Number(n)	component ratio(%)
age(year)	65–69	1	4.76
	70–74	7	33.33
	75–79	4	19.05
	80 and above	9	42.86
Gender	Female	16	76.19
	Male	5	23.81
	Primary school degree	5	23.81
Education	Junior high school degree	7	33.33
	Senior high school degree	4	19.05
	Technical secondary school or above	5	23.81
Income	Below 4000	5	23.81
	4000–5999	10	47.62
	6000and above	6	28.57
Health Empowerment	High level of health empowerment	10	47.62
	Low level of health empowerment	11	52.38
Type of Frailty	Physical frailty	15	71.43
	Psychological frailty	16	76.19
	social frailty	11	52.38
NCDs	Hypertension	19	90.48
	Diabetes	15	71.43
	Coronary atherosclerosis	13	61.90
	Stroke	7	33.33
	Chronic bone and joint disease	13	61.90
	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	2	9.52
	Chronic kidney disease	1	4.76
	Chronic gastrointestinal disease	4	19.05
	Cancer	1	4.76

Marginal Notes: The presence of different dimensions of frailty was assessed by the Chinese version of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), i.e., fulfilment of the criteria of ≥ 3 points for the dimension of physical frailty, ≥ 2 points for the dimension of psychological frailty, or ≥ 2 points for the dimension of social frailty)

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