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Development of a Brief Assessment Tool to Evaluate Early Low Nutrition Risk in Community Elderly: Creation of the Tool and Examination of Its Reliability and Criterion-related Validity
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Shoji Shinkai, Miki Narita, Hiroshi Murayama, Akihiko Kitamura, Yoshinori Fujiwara
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- To date, a simple assessment tool to evaluate early low nutrition risk in the general older population has not been available.
- In this study, we developed such an indicator consisting of 13 items with four factors through a rigorous scale development process.
- This indicator showed good internal reliability and criterion-related validity, indicating a potential to evaluate early low nutrition risk.
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