Qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde de idosos diabéticos acompanhados pelas equipes de saúde da família de Cajazeiras - Paraíba.

Abstract

The Family Health Strategy (FHS), while national public policy, has been highlighted as a tool of reorganization of basic health care, on the rationale of health surveillance. Representing the concept of health which focuses on promoting quality of life. Among the various actions that are developed in the FHS is the control of arterial hypertension and diabetes, which has the goal to reduce the number of complications, by means of prevention and control of comorbidities, and thus promoting a better quality of life related to the health (QLRH) of patients. In this context, the present study proposes to assess the quality of life of elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus accompanied by professionals in the FSE in the municipality of Cajazeiras - PB, in order to verify that the quality of life of these people and damaged as a result of the disease. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study with a quantitative approach, performed with 68 elderly diabetic patients during the month of November 2011. By means of the application of an instrument with sociodemographic variables and two instruments for assessing the (QLRH),The Medical Outcomes Study 36- Item Short-form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Problems Areas in Diabetes Scale (PADS), Brazilian Portuguese versions. The results showed that, in general, the diabetes exerts a significant impact on the lives of younger patients (average of 68.84 years), female (75 % ), with a level of schooling lower (60.3 %) and with less time for the diagnosis of the disease (mean of 6.62 years). Among the areas studied, the pain was the worst score (26.76), followed by the social aspects (42.46) and the general state of health (40.81). The highest scores were found in the areas mental health (74.76 % ), emotional aspects (71.76 % ), vitality (67.50 ), physical aspects (66.18 ) and functional capacity (61.18 ), representing a standard positive on the quality of life for the elderly. In relation to the specific questionnaire B-PAID, its analysis demonstrated that the diabetes mellitus has little effect on the quality of life of elderly investigated. Concludes that, although the majority of the participants in the study have shown a good standard of HRQOL, wear diabetes brings specificities that vary from individual to individual, characterizing the phenomenon as a singular.