Fatores associados ao comprometimento da mobilidade de idosos do Ceará

Abstract

There are several factors that are associated with impaired mobility of the elderly. These are related to sociodemographic variables, health status, nutritional status and physical activity level. With the changes in the age structure of the population since the mid-twentieth century, where you see an increase in the number of people aged over 60 years. It warns of the aging changes in the individual's life, changes related to physiological, psychological, economic, and demographic. It conducted a population-based study with a sample of 728 elderly people, from the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Juazeiro and Crato. The questionnaire was used in the study SABE, composed of sociodemographic variables, where the following were selected: gender, age, have gone to school and who live, obtaining significant results in relation to mobility impairment only in the first two. The health status variables were measured according to the self-report of respondents older, and found significant results in variables positive assessment of health and diabetes. BMI was classified according to the proposal of Lipschitz (1994), and the level of habitual physical activity was used the questionnaire developed by Baecke, Burema and Frijters (1982), obtaining significant results in BMI category eutrophic and all physical activity level variables associated with impaired mobility. Impaired mobility was assessed by the Short Performance Score. We used frequency distribution in the descriptive analysis and chi-square test for the comparison of variables and logistic regression and analyzed in Sata version 11.0 software. It is concluded, therefore, that the more advanced the age, the greater compromised mobility. Elderly women also have a higher tendency to have impaired mobility than men. It was observed that the higher the level of physical activity, lower impairment of mobility and the higher the physical exercise, better mobility of the elderly. The ideal would be to get everyone practiced physical activity as early as possible, but there are many barriers that prevent the elderly to join a practice exercise. Therefore, it is important to reduce these barriers through awareness, encouragement and awareness to physical activity. It is also important to find ways to motivate the elderly to practice physical activity, thereby reducing the risks to the health of the same