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Recherche Internationale sur la Fragilité des Aînés
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Recherche Internationale sur la Fragilité des Aînés

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Initiatives 0
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Investigators Contacts
  • Prof. Emmanuel Guindon
    Université de Montréal
  • Lucie Richard
    Université de Montréal
  • Dr. Nicolas Sirven
    IRDES: institut de recherche et documentation en économie de la santé
  • Dr. François Béland
    Université de Montréal
  • Prof. Véronique Provencher
    Université Laval
  • Prof. Lise Gauvin
    Université de Montréal
  • Dr. Dominic Julien
    Université de Montréal

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Individual Studies

Acronym Name Study design Participants Countries
CLSA Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Cohort 50,000 Canada
FRéLE FRéLE: Fragilité, une étude longitudinale de ses expressions [Frailty, a longitudinal study of its expressions] Cohort 1,643 Canada
NuAge Quebec Longitudinal Study on Nutrition and Successful Aging Cohort 1,793 Canada

Classifications

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics 3
Lifestyle and health behaviours 3
Health status and functional limitations 3
Diseases 3
Symptoms and signs 3
Medication and supplements 3
Non-pharmacological interventions 2
Health and community care utilization 2
Reproduction 2
Birth, infancy and childhood 2
End of life 1
Physical measures 3
Cognition, personality and other psychological measures 3
Laboratory measures 1
Social environment 3
Physical environment 2
Administrative information 3

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics 3

Age/birthdate 3
Sex/gender 3
Marital/partner status 3
Education 3
Birth place 3
Citizenship and immigrant status 3
Ethnicity, race and religion 3
Language 3
Residence 3
Family and household structure 3
Labour force and retirement 3
Income, possessions, and benefits 3

Lifestyle and health behaviours 3

Tobacco 3
Alcohol 3
Illicit drugs 1
Nutrition 2
Physical activity 2
Transportation 1
Sleep 1
Leisure activities 1

Health status and functional limitations 3

Perception of health 1
Quality of life 2
Functional activities 3
Use of assistive devices 3
Other information about health status 2

Diseases 3

Neoplasms (C00-D48) 3
Blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89) 1
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 3
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 2
Nervous system (G00-G99) 3
Eye and adnexa (H00-H59) 3
Ear and mastoid process (H60-H95) 2
Circulatory system (I00-I99) 3
Respiratory system (J00-J99) 3
Digestive system (K00-K93) 3
Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 1
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99) 3
Genitourinary system (N00-N99) 2
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98) 2
External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98) 2
Diseases without precise specification or related to multiple categories 3

Symptoms and signs 3

Circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09) 1
Digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19) 2
Urinary system (R30-R39) 1
Cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46) 2
General symptoms and signs (R50-R69) 1

Medication and supplements 3

Medication and supplements 3
Posology and protocol of administration 1
Other and unspecified pharmacological interventions 1

Non-pharmacological interventions 2

Surgical interventions 1
Physical therapy interventions 1
Cognitive, psychological and sensory interventions 1
Educational and health promotion interventions 1
Other information on non-pharmacological interventions 2

Health and community care utilization 2

Visits to health professionals 2
Hospitalizations 1
Community care 2

Reproduction 2

Menstruation, menopause and andropause 2
Pregnancy, labour, delivery, and postpartum characteristics 1
Gravidity, pregnancy outcomes, parity (female) and fertility (male) 2

Birth, infancy and childhood 2

Newborn/infant characteristics 1
Other infant/child related information 2

End of life 1

Vital status 1

Physical measures 3

Physical characteristics 1
Anthropometry 3
Circulation and respiration 1
Muscles, skeleton and mobility 2
Skin and subcutaneous tissue 1

Cognition, personality and other psychological measures 3

Cognitive functioning 2
Psychological distress and emotions 3
Personality 1
Other psychological measures 2

Laboratory measures 1

Hematology 1
Biochemistry 1

Social environment 3

Social network 3
Social participation 3
Social support 3
Life events and plans 3
Other social environment characteristics 3

Physical environment 2

Housing characteristics 1
Built environment/neighbourhood characteristics 1
Chemical exposure 1

Administrative information 3

Identifiers 2
Date and time 2
Questionnaire / Interview related information 2
Physical and cognitive measures and biosample related information 2
Data and sample collection center characteristics 3
Other administrative information 2