Avaliação e comparação dos fatores intrínsecos dos riscos de quedas em idosos com diferentes estados funcionais

• Autor(a) principal: Akemi, Ishizuka Marise
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Jacob Filho, Wilson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fisioterapia e Pesquisa
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/fpusp/article/view/77118
• topic: debilidade muscular; idoso; acidentes por quedas; equilíbrio; marcha; fatores de riscos.; muscle weakness; aged; accidental falls; equilibrium; gait; risk factors.

Falls in old people are multifactorials events that represent a large importance to the gerontologists because it appears with large morbidityand mortality in this age. This dissertation has the objective to trace the socio-functional and clinic profile of olders ambulatoriais with differentsgrades of performance and then, compare them, identify the factorsevaluated who have correlation with the risk and frequency of the fall. Forty nine olders were evaluated (with average age of 71.24, SD 5.47) of a screening ambulatory of Geriatric Service of a tertiary Hospital, in relation to their balance and gait (assessed by POMA), muscle strength (30's chair stand), gait velocity (Timed Up and Go), incidence of falls and others risks clinics; the olders were divided in to two groups of risks of falls, thrown thetest POMA: medium and low risk. Results: the group of medium risk related more falls (14 olders) than the low risk (3), proved statistically (qui- square 0,0052). Into the factors of risks evaluated, the presence of depression or antecedents was the most frequent in the medium risk (qui-square 0,0016), but it didn't present difference if the variable was thenumber of falls; the muscle weakness presented statistic correlation in the relation of risk (qui- square 0,0284) and the fall (qui-square 0,0013). These facts suggest that the POMA really evaluates the risk of falls and the treatment of risk factors like depression or antecedents and the muscle weakness can cooperate in the prevention of the occurrence of falls in olders of medium risk.