Prevalência e fatores associados à incapacidade funcional para atividades básicas da vida diária entre idosos de um centro de saúde da família do município de Goiânia-Go

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2013-10-11

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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NTRODUCTION: The loss of function of the body is one of the major problems of the human aging process and it can make an elderly person totally or partially dependent on others. Also it may affect their independence and quality of life. The evaluation of capacity for Basic Activities of Daily Living can straight health care for the elderly. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with functional disability on the basic activities of daily life of elderly. METHODS: An epidemiological analytical cross-sectional study, conducted with 252 elderly from the Family Health Strategy at the Health Family Center of Vila Mutirão in Goiânia-Go, casually selected through a random selection. All the information was taken by structured instrument having socioeconomic and demographic facts, conditions and health perception, and functional assessment scale for ADL / Katz adapted by the Department of Health. To identify the issues associated with the loss of the body function, a varied analysis was made and chi-square test was used, and when appropriated, Fisher's exact test, with Odds Ratio as an associate measure. We conducted multivariate logistic regression with the variables: sex, age, and those with p < 0.10 in the varied analysis. Pauses of 95% assurance were calculated and considered statistically significant the associations that had p < 0.05. RESULTS: 64.3% of the elderly people were female , 53.4% aged between 60 and 69 years old, 40.9% were married, 59.1% had low financial family income, 69.5% were retired, 82,9% did not have remunerated jobs . 48.0% considered their health regular, 44.0% reported having better health than other seniors of the same age, 73% reported having hypertension and 73.4 % reported visual weakening. 88.1% of the elderly people show preserved functional capacity to the development of ADL revealing autonomy and independence in the development of these activities. The occurrence of disability was 11.9% in which 7.9 % were dependent continence, 6.4% for bathing and 6 % to dress up. The factors related to disability in basic activities of daily living between older adults were: being 71 years old or more (22.2 %); being male (17.7%); having chronic disease (12.2%); be illiterate or to know how to read or write without having attended school (14.7 %); not having a paid job ( 14.4 % ); receiving more than minimum salary ( 20 % ); not living alone (9.1% ); hearing deficit ( 18.4 % ) and vision ( 12.8%) and state to having poor or very poor health (32 %). The variables that remained significant for the result of functional disability in basic activities were: being 71 years old or more; higher income than the minimum salary and supposed poor / very poor health. CONCLUSION: The study identified the ability of seniors to ADL and will allow the development of multidisciplinary care planning, especially regarding the actions for improvements in quality of life of the elderly and their family caregivers.

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SANTOS, Weslane Souza de Almeida. Prevalência e fatores associados à incapacidade funcional para atividades básicas da vida diária entre idosos de um centro de saúde da família do município de Goiânia-Go. 2013. 102 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Saúde Coletiva) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2013.