Qualidade de vida e capacidade funcional em idosos com dor lombar cronica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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This study had the objective to investigate the health related quality of life (HRQL), and disabilities in elderly people with chronic low back pain. The participants were 92 elderly people with chronic low back pain who attended a rehabilitation center. The data were gathered through the administration of sociodemographic and clinical outcome measures; the evaluation of HRQL ? The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item short-form healthy survey (SF-36); Brazil ROLAND-MORRIS (Brazil-RM) for the evaluation of the disabilities; numerical pain rating scale (PS) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). The following analyses were made: descriptive; coefficients of reliability; univariate (ANOVA) and multivariate (MANOVA); Pearson?s correlation and Spearman?s correlation coefficients; univariate and stepwise linear multiple regression analysis; and the Mann-Whitney test. According to ANOVA, the variables which influenced different dimensions of SF-36 were: gender, level of education, sleep disorders, duration of the current episode of low back pain, intensity of pain, and depressive symptoms. While in MANOVA only the variables intensity of pain and depressive symptoms affected the HRQL of the elderly people as a whole. The variables which were significant in univariate linear regression were age range, presence of sleep disorders, physical activity, duration of the current episode for more than one year, paresthesia, muscle weakness, morning stiffness, intensity of pain and depressive symptoms. The variables which explained 36.5% of the score variability of Brazil-RM, in the stepwise multiple linear regression were: intensity of pain; morning stiffness; sleep disorders and depressive symptoms. There was a significant negative correlation of high magnitude among the dimensions physical functioning, role-physical, role-emotional and Brazil-RM; general health, vitality, role-emotional, mental health and depressive symptoms. The correlation among Brazil-RM and intensity of pain and depressive symptoms, although significant, has a moderate magnitude. The results make evident that HRQL and the disabilities of the elderly people with chronic low back pain are correlated and are influenced mainly by intensity of pain and depressive symptoms. Therefore, it is recommended to elaborate interventions oriented to minimize the low back pain referred by these elderly people, as well as to improve the other variables related with the increasing of the low back pain of these subjects, aiming the optimization of functional capability and hence, the HRQL

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quality of life depression in the aged incapacidade - avaliação envelhecimento questionnaires depressão em idosos aging aptidão fisica em idosos disability evaluation physical fitness for the aged qualidade de vida - questionarios

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