Profile of patients attended by the speech therapists of the home care service
| Autor: | Rebecca Rhuanny Tolentino Limeira, Isabella Lima Arrais Ribeiro, Marcela Leiros Maciel Macedo, Ricardo Dias de Castro, Simone Pereira Lins Chaves, Laís Guedes Alcoforado de Carvalho, Renato Carvalho Morais Junior, Suelene Castro de Figueiredo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Home Care Service
medicine.medical_specialty Primary Healthcare 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Swallowing lcsh:P1-1091 medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Stroke General Environmental Science 030505 public health Descriptive statistics business.industry Home care service Swallowing Disorders Medical record Microsoft excel General Medicine medicine.disease lcsh:Otorhinolaryngology Dysphagia lcsh:RF1-547 lcsh:Philology. Linguistics Family medicine Speech Language and Hearing Sciences General Earth and Planetary Sciences medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Revista CEFAC v.20 n.5 2018 Revista CEFAC Centro de Especialização em Fonoaudiologia Clínica (CEFAC) instacron:CEFAC Revista CEFAC, Vol 20, Iss 5, Pp 613-620 |
| Popis: | Objective: to ascertain the profile of home care service (HCS) users with speech and language complaints in João Pessoa, Paraíba (PB). Methods: a descriptive and quantitative study using an indirect documentation technique based on an analysis of primary source documents, characterized as a documentary study, conducted at a HCS, in João Pessoa, PB, that stores user information in the form of medical records. All patient records included by the HCS from June 2012 to June 2016 were analyzed. After the eligibility criteria were applied, the sample consisted of 114 medical records. The collected data were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to generate descriptive statistics using IBM SPSS (version 21.0). Results: most patients were males (59.6%), elderly (62.3%), had been diagnosed with a stroke (57.9%),had histories of dysphagia (76.3%), speech problems (58.8%), swallowing disorders (80.7%), and abnormal chewing (77.2%). Dysphagia is often associated with stroke, predominantly among males and the elderly. Conclusion difficulty in swallowing, or dysphagia, is often associated with stroke, predominantly in the presence of the sociodemographic and clinical variables associated with men and the elderly. |
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