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Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study

BACKGROUND: In geriatric and long-term care settings, intertrigo seems to be common, but generalizable epidemiological estimates are lacking. Aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents and to identify possible relationships with demographic and healt...

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Autores principales: Gabriel, Sabrina, Hahnel, Elisabeth, Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike, Kottner, Jan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30987588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1100-8
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author Gabriel, Sabrina
Hahnel, Elisabeth
Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike
Kottner, Jan
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description BACKGROUND: In geriatric and long-term care settings, intertrigo seems to be common, but generalizable epidemiological estimates are lacking. Aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents and to identify possible relationships with demographic and health characteristics. METHODS: A cross-sectional prevalence study was conducted between September 2014 and May 2015 in a random sample of ten institutional long-term care facilities in Berlin, Germany. In total 223, aged long-term care residents were included. Mean age was 83.6 (SD 8.0) years and mean Barthel score was 45.1 (SD 23.8). Board certified dermatologists and study assistants performed skin assessments and measurements according to standard operating procedures. Mean differences and odds ratios between residents with and without intertrigo were calculated. RESULTS: The prevalence of intertrigo was 16.1% (95% CI 11.6 to 21.2%). The submammary fold was most often affected (9.9%), followed by the inguinal region (9.4%), axilla (0.5%) and abdominal region (0.5%). Increased age was statistically significantly associated with the presence of intertrigo (OR 1.05; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.10). Care dependency in bathing activities was associated with intertrigo. Obesity, sex and skin functional parameters were not associated with intertrigo. CONCLUSIONS: Every sixth nursing home resident was affected by intertrigo indicating the high load of this skin condition in this population. Older age seems to be associated with intertrigo. Care dependency in bathing activities was likely to be associated with intertrigo. Structured skin care regimens are needed to prevent and treat intertrigo in this population. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This study is registered at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02216526. Registration date: 8th November 2014.
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spelling pubmed-64667682019-04-22 Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study Gabriel, Sabrina Hahnel, Elisabeth Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike Kottner, Jan BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: In geriatric and long-term care settings, intertrigo seems to be common, but generalizable epidemiological estimates are lacking. Aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents and to identify possible relationships with demographic and health characteristics. METHODS: A cross-sectional prevalence study was conducted between September 2014 and May 2015 in a random sample of ten institutional long-term care facilities in Berlin, Germany. In total 223, aged long-term care residents were included. Mean age was 83.6 (SD 8.0) years and mean Barthel score was 45.1 (SD 23.8). Board certified dermatologists and study assistants performed skin assessments and measurements according to standard operating procedures. Mean differences and odds ratios between residents with and without intertrigo were calculated. RESULTS: The prevalence of intertrigo was 16.1% (95% CI 11.6 to 21.2%). The submammary fold was most often affected (9.9%), followed by the inguinal region (9.4%), axilla (0.5%) and abdominal region (0.5%). Increased age was statistically significantly associated with the presence of intertrigo (OR 1.05; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.10). Care dependency in bathing activities was associated with intertrigo. Obesity, sex and skin functional parameters were not associated with intertrigo. CONCLUSIONS: Every sixth nursing home resident was affected by intertrigo indicating the high load of this skin condition in this population. Older age seems to be associated with intertrigo. Care dependency in bathing activities was likely to be associated with intertrigo. Structured skin care regimens are needed to prevent and treat intertrigo in this population. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This study is registered at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02216526. Registration date: 8th November 2014. BioMed Central 2019-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6466768/ /pubmed/30987588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1100-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gabriel, Sabrina
Hahnel, Elisabeth
Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike
Kottner, Jan
Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title_full Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title_fullStr Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title_short Prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
title_sort prevalence and associated factors of intertrigo in aged nursing home residents: a multi-center cross-sectional prevalence study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30987588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1100-8
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