Dependência de Cuidados de Enfermagem de Pessoas Idosas Hospitalizadas: a realidade de uma unidade clínica.

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Fabiana Medeiros de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8731
• topic: Dependência; Idoso; Cuidados de enfermagem; Teoria de enfermagem; Hospitalização; Dependence; Elderly; Nursing care; Nursing theory; Hospitalization; Dependencia; Anciano; Cuidados de enfermaría; Teoría de enfermaría; Hospitalización; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

aging takes place in a multidimensional and specific way in each individual and is related with the processes of demographic and epidemiological transition, which entails greater demand for health care. The importance of the use of Nursing Theories, mainly in the hospital context, is essential to identify the dependence of the elderly in relation to nursing care. Objective: to verify the dependence of nursing care of elderly people hospitalized in a clinical unit by using the Perroca’s Classification System of Patients. Method: this is a descriptive and epidemiological study, with transversal cutting, performed in a clinical unit of a teaching hospital located in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba State. The sample was composed by 112 elderly people. Data collection took place between April and June 2015 by means of the structured interview technique and a form including sociodemographic and clinical aspects relevant to this research, patient classification variables based on the instrument validated by Perroca and NANDA-I nursing diagnoses, which emerged from the empirical indicators present in the patient classification instrument proposed by Perroca. Data were compiled and analyzed with the aid of the statistics program called Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 20.0. Descriptive analysis of data, logistic regression and association tests were held, taking into account a statistically significant variable when p<0,05. This project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Center for Health Sciences of the Federal University of Paraíba, under the Protocol nº 0668/2014 and CAAE nº 39399014.6.0000.5188. Results: there was prevalence of elderly of the female gender (69,6%), aged between 60 and 70 years (34,8%), widowed (48,2%), whites (44,6%), with educational levels between one and three years (43,8%), average income of up to 2 minimum wages (92,0%) and retirees/pensioners (85,0%). As for the clinical characteristics, it was found that 55,0% of elderly people remained in the hospital since less than a week, and they were particularly suffering from the following health problems: systemic arterial hypertension (68,8%), diabetes (43,8%), pneumonia (34,8%) and urinary tract infection (18,8%). Particularly, it was found that 34% of surveyed elderly subjects were classified in the category of semi-intensive care and 33% in intensive care, thereby revealing a high degree of dependence in relation to nursing care. Moreover, this study has demonstrated a statistically significant association about the presence of the nursing diagnoses of impaired urinary elimination, self-care deficit for food and impaired bed mobility to be able to boost the possibility of an elderly remaining in full dependence on nursing care. Conclusion: the empirical results obtained by means of this research are essential subsidies to plan and implement specific nursing interventions in order to improve the quality of life, which includes the nursing care of hospitalized elderly people.