Prevalencia y factores asociados al síndrome locomotor en adultos mayores de la comunidad

Autor: Maria do Livramento Fortes Figueiredo, Ana Clara dos Santos e Silva Costa, Eukália Pereira da Rocha, Luana Maria Costa Borges, Tereza Cristina Araújo da Silva, Juan José Tirado Darder
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem v.30 2021
Texto & contexto enfermagem
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
instacron:UFSC
Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem, Volume: 30, Article number: e20200494, Published: 06 SEP 2021
ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científica
Universidad Europea (UEM)
Popis: Objective: to analyze prevalence and the factors associated with locomotive syndrome in community-dwelling older adults. Method: a cross-sectional study, developed in a municipal center for the care of older adults in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. The sample was for convenience and comprised 204 older adults aged 60 years or more, of both genders and with preserved cognitive capacity, according to parameters of the Mini Mental State Examination. Data collection occurred from March to November 2018, by applying a form for sociodemographic, clinical and falls occurrence characterization and the 25-item Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale. To measure the strength of the associations between the variables, odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were adopted. The statistical significance level was set at 5% for the analyses. Results: the prevalence of locomotive syndrome found was 37.2%. The factors associated with the presence of locomotive syndrome were individual monthly income (p=0.005); existence of one of the following comorbidities: systemic arterial hypertension (p=0.039), osteoporosis (p=0.016), arthrosis (p
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