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Table 5 Reliability and validity of CFS-Thai and CFS-CT-Thai

From: Translation and validation of the Thai clinical frailty scale and classification tree in older adults

Tests

N

Kappa*

p-value

Inter-rater reliability

48

0.80

< 0.001

Concurrent validity

   

• CFS-Thai ≥ 4 vs. mTFI

61

0.52

< 0.001

• CFS-Thai ≥ 5 vs. mTFI

61

0.44

< 0.001

• T-FRAIL (≥ 2) vs. mTFI

61

0.46

< 0.001

• T-FRAIL (≥ 3) vs. mTFI

61

0.30

< 0.001

• CFS-Thai ≥ 4 vs. T-FRAIL

213

0.30

< 0.001

• CFS-Thai ≥ 5 vs. T-FRAIL

213

0.49

< 0.001

• CFS-CT-Thai vs. CFS-Thai

213

0.94

< 0.001

  1. Abbreviations: CFS-Thai, Thai version of Clinical Frailty Scale; mTFI, Modified Thai Frailty Index; T-FRAIL, Thai version of Simple Frailty Questionnaire; CFS-CT-Thai, Thai version of Clinical Frailty Scale Classification Tree
  2. *Kappa values are based on dichotomized classifications using cut-off thresholds and mTFI ≥ 0.25 as the reference for frailty