Quedas em Instituições para idosos: caracterização dos episódios de quedas e fatores de risco associados / Falls in institutions for older adults: characterization of fall occurrences and associated risk factors
Rev. eletrônica enferm
;
17(4): 1-9, 20151131. tab
Article
in Portuguese
| LILACS, BDENF
| ID: biblio-832596
RESUMO
As quedas saÌo o principal acidente nos idosos e teÌm repercussoÌes na funcionalidade. Os idosos por medo de nova queda impoÌem ou veÌm ser-lhes impostas restriçoÌes aÌ sua atividade. Estudo longitudinal prospectivo, realizado em 104 idosos institucionalizados, ao longo de seis meses, com os objetivos:
determinar a prevaleÌncia de quedas, caracterizar a queda quanto ao local, horaÌrio, lesoÌes resultantes, vigilaÌncia do idoso, atividade que estava a ser executada no momento da queda e relacionar a ocorreÌncia de queda com o risco de queda, diagnoÌsticos meÌdicos, nuÌmero de medicamentos que o idoso faz uso, tipo de medicamento, grau de dependeÌncia, idade e sexo. A prevaleÌncia de quedas foi de 37,5%, estas ocorrem predominantemente no quarto, durante a marcha ao levantar da cama. Tem maior prevaleÌncia de quedas quem tem risco na escala de Morse (p=0,034) e consome sedativos (p=0,007). Este estudo permite fazer sugestoÌes para a praÌtica, formaçaÌo e investigaçaÌo.ABSTRACT
Falls are the main accident for older adults, with consequences on functionality. Older adults impose restrictions or have restrictions imposed on their activities for fear of new falls. This prospective longitudinal study was conducted with 104 institutionalized older adults during six months with the following goals to determine the prevalence of falls, to characterize the falls according to place, time, resulting injuries, supervision of the older adult, action performed at the time of the fall, and to relate the occurrence of the fall to the risk of falling, medical diagnoses, number of medications in use, type of medication, degree of dependency, age, and gender. The prevalence of falls was 37.5%, and they happened mostly in the bedroom, while walking after getting up from the bed. Those under risk in the Morse Fall Scale (p=0.034) and on sedatives (p=0.007) face a higher prevalence of falls. This study enables the possibility of making suggestions for practice, training and investigation.
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Main subject:
Accidental Falls
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Risk Factors
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Homes for the Aged
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Rev. eletrônica enferm
Journal subject:
Nursing
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Portugal
Institution/Affiliation country:
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa/PT
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Instituto Politécnico de Leira/PT
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