Qualidade de vida em pacientes com osteoporose: correlação entre OPAQ e SF-36

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos, Maria Carolina Davel
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Miyamoto, Samira Tatiyama [UNIFESP], Valim, Valeria [UNIFESP], Natour, Jamil [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0482-50042006000500004; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/3299
• topic: Quality of life; osteoporosis; SF-36; OPAQ; qualidade de vida; osteoporose; SF-36; OPAQ

OBJECTIVE: to correlate the quality of life assessment instrument, specific to osteoporosis, OPAQ (Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire), with the generic instrument SF-36 (Item Short Form Health Survey). PATIENTS AND METHODS: the cross sectional observational study included 40 female patients older than 60 years with osteoporosis. A single assessment was always conducted by the same evaluator. For the statistics analisys the Pearson s coefficient and the factor analysis to OPAQ were used. RESULTS: there was a correlation between the domains and final components of SF-36 with the domains of OPAQ. The higher coefficients were between the OPAQ Symptoms and some domains of SF-36: pain (r=-0,6), social aspects (r=-0,6) and mental health (r=-0,5). Almost every aspect of SF-36 was correlated with the OPAQ Symptoms. By factor analysis of OPAQ it was observed that the 18 components of OPAQ represented 63% of factor load, and they explained the total account of osteoporosis s impact in the quality of life and were grouped in five factors: factor 1 (mobility, self-care, independence and household tasks), factor 2 (flexibility, transfers and sleep), factor 3 (backache, pain related to osteoporosis, fatigue and mood), factor 4 (fear of fall, social activity, family support and tension) and factor 5 (walking and bending, body image and work). CONCLUSION: the expected correlation was achieved between SF-36 and OPAQ, wich is a specific assessment instrument capable of assessing particular and general aspects of the quality of life in patients with osteoporosis.