<p>Objetivo: analisar a relação entre fragilidade, sintomas depressivos e qualidade de vida de idosos institucionalizados. Métodos: estudo descritivo, correlacional, de corte transversal. Foram avaliados 42 idosos institucionalizados, de setembro a dezembro de 2016, utilizando-se questionário para caracterização, Tilburg Frailty Indicator, Escala de Depressão Geriátrica com 15 questões e Quality of Life Scales for Nursing Home Residents. Resultados: predominaram idosos do gênero feminino (57,1%), com média de idade de 77,4 anos (dp=9,8), frágeis (57,1%), sem sintomas depressivos (57,1%). Idosos não frágeis apresentaram melhor percepção da qualidade de vida em sete domínios do instrumento utilizado para avaliação. Houve correlação negativa, de moderada magnitude e estatisticamente significante entre sintomas depressivos e cinco domínios do instrumento de qualidade de vida. Verificou-se correlação entre fragilidade e sintomas depressivos (p=0,008). Conclusão: idosos institucionalizados frágeis e com sintomas depressivos apresentaram pior percepção de qualidade de vida.</p><p><br />Descritores: Idoso Fragilizado. Depressão. Qualidade de vida. Institucionalização. Enfermagem geriátrica.</p>
Objective: to analyze the relationship between frailty, depressive symptoms, and quality of life of elderly caregivers of other elderly living in high social vulnerability. Methods: a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study conducted with 40 elderly caregivers. A questionnaire to characterize elderly caregivers, the Fried frailty phenotype, the Geriatric Depression Scale (to screen depressive symptoms) and the Short-Form 6 Dimension (to assess quality of life) were used. For data analysis, Student’s t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s χ2 and Fisher’s exact test were used. Results: most were pre-frail (52.5%) and had no evidence of depressive symptoms (57.5%). They presented, on average, a score of 0.76 (±0.1) in relation to quality of life. Statistical significance was observed between the average scores of quality of life with depressive symptoms (p=0.012) and frailty level (p=0.004). Conclusion: frail elderly caregivers with depressive symptoms had a worse perception of quality of life.
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