FUNCTIONALITY AND LIFE QUALITY OF PATIENTS WITH NEUROLOGICAL SEQUELAE

• Autor(a) principal: Banja, Daniela Hayashi
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Tsukamoto, Heloísa Freiria, Andrade Silva, Luís Fabiano, Camargo, Naiara Daiane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/2175
• topic: Dependence-Independence area; Life quality; Diseases of the nervous system; Complications.; Área de Dependência-Independência; Qualidade de Vida; Doenças do Sistema Nervoso; Complicações; .

Patients with neurological sequelae may have their functional performance changed, with serious negative consequences for personal, family and social relationships, and especially in their life quality. Current investigation analyzes the functionality of the life quality of patients who undergo neuro-functional physiotherapy. The samples comprised 19 subjects, 13 males and 6 females, attended to at the neuro-functional section of the Clinic of the Physiotherapy School of FAP. The subjects’ mean age was 47±13 years; the disease’s diagnostic period was 48[22; 108] months; period of physiotherapeutic treatment was 34 [8: 60] months. Subjects’ functionality was evaluated by Barthel Index, modified (IBm), and their life quality by the shortened WHOQOL questionnaire (WHOQOLbref). Data were analyzed by the statistics program GraphPad Prism 5. Results showed that, in the case of functionality, 63% manifested some sort of dependence; 11% total dependence; 5% mild dependence and 5% serious dependence. In the case of life quality, physical dominion scored 57±19; psychological dominion scored 60±15; social dominion scored 60±24; environmental dominion scored 56±18. There were no significant correlations between the score obtained by IBm and the domains of WHOQOL-bref. The best correlation was obtained between IBm and the social domain of WHOQOL-bref (r=0,42). The degree of functional independence of patients with neurological disorders may cause damage on their perception of QV, and social spects seem to be key players.