Pontes ÉS, Amaral AKDFJD, Rêgo FLCD, Azevedo EHM, Silva POC. Quality of life in swallowing of the elderly patients affected by stroke.
ARQUIVOS DE GASTROENTEROLOGIA 2017;
54:27-32. [PMID:
28079235 DOI:
10.1590/s0004-2803.2017v54n1-05]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND
- The elderly population faces many difficulties as a result of the aging process. Conceptualize and evaluate their life quality is a challenge, being hard to characterize the impact on daily activities and on functional capacity. The stroke is one of the most disabling neurological diseases, becoming a public health problem. As an aggravating result, there is dysphagia, a disorder that compromises the progression of the food from the mouth to the stomach, causing clinical complications to the individual.
OBJECTIVE
- Characterize the life quality of the elderly swallowing affected by stroke.
METHODS
- Cross-sectional study conducted at the University Hospital, attended by 35 elderly with stroke, being 19 women and 16 men, with age between 60 and 90 years old, that self-reported satisfactory overall clinical picture. It was applied the Quality of Life Swallowing protocol. The data were statistically analyzed, by means of ANOVA tests, Spearman correlation, t test, with significance level of 5%.
RESULTS
- The mean age was 69.5 years; as for the scores obtained by the 35 participants in the 11 domains of the protocol, it was observed a change in score indicating severe to moderate impact in quality of life related to self-reported swallowing (31.8% to 59.5%); the domain that most interfered was the feeding time (31.8%).
CONCLUSION
- Elderly affected by stroke that present dysphagia has low scores in quality of life related to swallowing.
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