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Editorial
. 2020 Apr-Jun;16(2):216-222.
doi: 10.4183/aeb.2020.216.

ROMANIAN TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF THE SARC-F QUESTIONNAIRE

A Gasparik  1 , M B Demián  1 , I Pascanu  2
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ROMANIAN TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF THE SARC-F QUESTIONNAIRE

A Gasparik et al. Acta Endocrinol (Buchar). 2020 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

Context: Several studies have addressed the impact of sarcopenia on various health outcomes. As the most critical issue is the early identification of individuals, a short screening tool may help clinicians to simply test for sarcopenia and start early management of the disease. Recently, a simple questionnaire, Sarc-F was provided that may adequately realize this aim.

Subjects and methods: To validate the questionnaire we translated the original Sarc-F according to the recommended methodology. A total of 80 people, aged 65+ were evaluated for sarcopenia. Muscle mass, strength, and physical performance were measured. Volunteers completed the Sarc-F as well as other two questionnaires. Discriminative power, reliability, construct validity analyses, specificity, sensitivity, negative and positive predictive value evaluations were made.

Results: A good discriminative power and internal consistency were found. With the functional sarcopenia diagnostic criteria the test demonstrates a high specificity (84%). The positive and negative predictive values were: 78% and 77%. Using the more conservative diagnostic criteria the negative predictive value was: 85.4%, sufficient to rule out those not at risk of having sarcopenia and eliminate the need for further investigations.

Conclusions: A valid Romanian Sarc-F questionnaire is now available to simply detect patients at risk/no risk of sarcopenia.

Keywords: muscle mass; older adults; sarcopenia; screening.

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