Título : Evaluación de los factores de riesgo de caídas en pacientes geriátricos institucionalizados en función del dispositivo de ayuda a la marcha empleado |
Autor : Brando Palazón, Melisa |
Tutor: Padrós Flores, Nuria |
Editor : Universidad Miguel Hernández |
Departamento: Departamentos de la UMH::Psicología de la Salud |
Fecha de publicación: 2018-06-21 |
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/11000/25923 |
Resumen :
Introducción: Las caídas representan uno de los grandes síndromes geriátricos y un importante problema de salud por su frecuencia y graves complicaciones asociadas.
En pacientes institucionalizados el riesgo de caídas aumenta, lo que incrementa los costos de los tratamientos en concepto de valoraci... Ver más
Introduction: The falls represent one of the great geriatric syndromes and an important health problem due to their frequency and serious associated complications.
In institutionalised patients the risk of falls increases, which in turn generates increments in costs for medical assessments, treatments, health-care staff and time for recovery. In addition, they represent a real problem, being considered an indicator of quality of care, since the greater the incidences of falls, the lower the quality of the assistance provided and vice versa.
Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between the use of walking devices used by institutionalised geriatric people and the risk of falls.
Material and methods: 26 geriatric residents of the Obispo Javier Azagra residence in El Palmar (Murcia) were selected among the 120 total residents who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Tinetti scale was used to assess the risk of falls and a questionnaire designed with 14 questions that includes the main risk factors related to falls in the elderly.
Results: 65.4% of residents (17 residents) do not use a device, 26.9% (7 residents) use a walker and 7.7% (2 residents) use a cane. By relating the variable walking aids and overall score of the Tinetti scale, statistically significant results are obtained, that is, there is a relationship between the use of a walking aid and the risk of falling, being the who use walker those who obtain lower scores and therefore have higher risk of falls than the rest. In the rest of the results, no statistically significant data are obtained.
Conclusions: There are differences between the risk of falls in institutionalised patients who use different walking aids in our study population. Those who use walkers obtain lower average scores on the Tinetti scale. We cannot affirm that there is a relationship between the rest of factors related to falls, and the risk of falls in our study population.
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Palabras clave/Materias: caídas ancianos prevención pacientes institucionalizados |
Área de conocimiento : CDU: Ciencias aplicadas |
Tipo de documento : info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis |
Derechos de acceso: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
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