Objective: As frailty is a predictor of variety poor outcomes in old populations, we conducted a survey from January through June 2014 to estimate the prevalence and risk factor of frailty in community-dwelling Chinese aged 65 and over.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 20 communities were selected from total 60 communities which covered by Pinyi Community Health Service Center by cluster sampling method and residents aged 65 years and over participated this survey. Frailty was measured by “FRAIL”, demographic characteristics, medical history and drug using and ADL, IADL, MMSE, mood disorder, MNA, polypharmacy, pain scale, were also assessed.Results: Up to 1117 residents participated in this survey. Average age were 73.25 ± 6.51 (range 65 to103), and 436(39%) were male. The prevalence of frailty, pre-frailty and robust were 5.7% (64), 36.8% (411), 57.5% (642), respectively. Aging (OR 1.037 for every 1 year old), with pain (OR 2.089), vision decreasing (OR 2.567), MNA<12 (OR 1.657) and ≥4 medicine (OR 2.694) were associated with pre-frailty, While with pain (OR 1.946), MMSE<18 (OR 2.262), vision decreasing (OR 2.438) and MNA<12 (OR 6.164) were associated with frailty.Conclusion: Using “FRAIL” scale, the prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty in southwest China was lower than Australia, but was similar with the United States. Pain, cognitive impairment, vision decreasing and malnutrition were risk factors for the both pre- frailty and frailty.
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