Sintomas Depressivos e Capacidade Funcional em Idosos Institucionalizados

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate depression and its relationship with functional capacity in the elderly living in long-stay institutions for the Elderly (ILPIs) of Maceió / AL. This was a correlative and comparative study among the participants, which consider the variables: criterion (depression) and background (functional capacity and indicators). 103 seniors attended eight ILPIs, 48 (46.6%) men and 55 (53.4%) women aged 60 up to 101 years (M = 76.2, SD = 10.1). Participants answered questions about: (1) Geriatric Depression Scale Yesavage, long version, (2) and Katz Index; (3) socio-demographic questionnaire. There were r Pearson correlation analysis and linear regression. It was found that 65% of the elderly had depressive symptoms and 56.4% had dependency related to functional capacity, with greater decline in women. It refers also that functional capacity was presented as a predictor of depressive symptoms and revealed a high incidence of these, in addition to functional disability in institutionalized elderly, pointing functional limitations as an indicator of depressive symptoms in these. We

Sociodemographic profile, family aspects, perception of health, functional capacity and depression in institutionalized elderly persons from the north coastal region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

“…Therefore, identifying the profile of the institutionalized elderly in different regions can contribute to the creation of public policies that are more suitable for individual needs, with a view to improving the quality of life of these populations. Functional capacity has been described as a predictor of depressive symptoms among institutionalized elderly persons, with functional limitations as an indicator of depressive symptomatology among the same 11 . There are reports in literature of depression affecting from 48% to 60% of institutionalized elderly people [12][13][14][15] .…”

Avaliação e fatores associados à incapacidade funcional de idosos residentes em Instituições de longa permanência

“…Ou seja, o viver sozinho, sem contato frequente com amigos ou familiares, invariavelmente reduz a sociabilidade dos idosos, tornando-os predispostos a sintomas depressivos, por exemplo, condições que são significativamente potencializadas no contexto da institucionalização, visto que muitos não são visitados pelos familiares por longos períodos isolando-se cada vez mais 16 . Desse modo, corroborando com os resultados encontrados neste estudo, onde observou-se que houve uma redução de 33% no índice de Katz para os indivíduos que recebiam visitas de seus familiares.…”

Sentido de vida en adultos mayores institucionalizados desde el enfoque Humanista-Existencial

“…En los Hogares Residenciales, los adultos mayores pueden presentar un aceleramiento en su deterioro físico (Freitas & Scheicher, 2010), un mayor nivel de dependencia con respecto a sus actividades de la vida diaria (Baltes & Wahl, 1990;Moreira et al, 2016) y mayores factores de riesgo para la salud mental, tales como el aislamiento, la soledad o el déficit en su cuidado personal (Brownie & Horstmanshof, 2011;Theurer, et al, 2015). Asimismo, esta situación contrasta con investigaciones que han comparado los índices de depresión entre adultos mayores institucionalizados y no institucionalizados, en el que los primeros presentan mayores niveles de depresión (Azeem & Naz, 2015;Silva et al, 2015).…”