Participação em grupo de promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida de idosos
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2014-03-28
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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INTRODUCTION: the growth of the elderly population set up a worldwide
phenomenon. In this scenario it is essential the establishment of strategies
that consider the characteristics of old age and are aimed at maintaining the
biopsychosocial health and quality of life of the elderly. Searches recommend
the use of group activities as a tool that promotes learning that encourage
socialization, make possible interpersonal relationships, contributes to
adaptation and change in living habits of the elderly. But for that, this activity
must meet the assumptions of group dynamics, ie, being implemented in
response to the needs of the group members. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to
analyze the participation in group of health promotion as a strategy to
improve the quality of life in elderly. METHODS: quantitative research
approach, performed with elderly enrolled in a Primary Care Unit Family
Health, participants (G1) and nonparticipants (G2) of group health promotion.
Data were collected from june to october 2012, using an instrument with
sociodemographic questions, and the WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD.
Subsequently were entered and analyzed in software Stata version 11.0. To
evaluate factors associated with QoL, were used multiple linear regression.
The level of significance was set at 5 %. RESULTS: the elderly group G1
had higher mean of QoL scores in all domains of the WHOQOL-BREF, not
being statistically significant only the result obtained in the psychological
domain. The lowest score for the two groups, G1 and G2, in the WHOQOLBREF,
was obtained in the field "environment" (G1: 60.2 ±11.2, G2: 50.5
±12.2). The G1 group also had higher mean scores and statistically
significant in facets "Past, present and future activities" (G1: 69.7, SD: 11.7,
G2: 59.2, SD: 15.0) and "Social participation" (G1: 72.4 ±11.2, G2: 55.6
±16.3). Join group was significantly associated with better QoL scores in the
"physical", "social relations" and "environment" domains, and the facets
"Past, present and future activities" and "Social participation”.
CONCLUSION: participation in group of health promotion supports
improvements to various aspects of QoL of the elderly, especially those
related to social inclusion and establishment/maintenance of interpersonal
relationships. Thus the group is a resource that should be used by health
professionals to promote and protect the health of the elderly because it
allows break situations of loneliness and gives opportunity to forge new
bonds of friendship and social support networks.
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SANTOS, Leidiene Ferreira. Participação em grupo de promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida de idosos. 2014. 192 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências da Saúde) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.