Assessment of Pain, Frailty, Fear of Falling, and Kinesiophobia in Older Adults With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To compare older adults without Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) on levels of pain, frailty, fear of falling, and kinesiophobia, and to examine the relationship between these parameters in older adults with Type 2 DM. METHODS: The study population included 120 older adults aged 65-88 years (mean: 70.98 ± 6.53), divided into two groups: 60 with and 60 without Type 2 DM. Pain, frailty, fear of falling, and kinesiophobia were assessed using the Visual Analog Scale, the Edmonton Frail Scale, the Tinetti Fall Efficacy Scale, and the Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of pain severity, frailty, fear of falling, and kinesiophobia (p < .05). A significant association was observed between pain severity, frailty, fear of falling, and kinesiophobia in older adults with Type 2 DM (p < .05). CONCLUSIONS: Higher levels of pain, frailty, fear of falling, and kinesiophobia were observed in participants with Type 2 DM compared with those without. The levels of frailty, fear of falling, higher levels of pain, and kinesiophobia were increased in those with Type 2 DM. An increase in fear of falling and kinesiophobia was associated with increased frailty. Furthermore, kinesiophobia was associated with an elevated fear of falling, and that fear of falling was associated with an increased likelihood of kinesiophobia. IMPLICATIONS: Health care professionals, public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations should work together to develop and implement policies, plans, and environmental regulations aimed at increasing physical activity levels and promoting independence in older adults with Type 2 DM.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".