Quality of life in swallowing of the elderly patients affected by stroke.

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Quality of life in swallowing of the elderly patients affected by stroke.

Arq Gastroenterol. 2017 Jan-Mar;54(1):27-32

Authors: Pontes ÉS, Amaral AK, Rêgo FL, Azevedo EH, Silva PO

Abstract
BACKGROUND: - The elderly population faces many difficulties as a result of the aging process. Conceptualize and evaluate their life quality is a challenge, being hard to characterize the impact on daily activities and on functional capacity. The stroke is one of the most disabling neurological diseases, becoming a public health problem. As an aggravating result, there is dysphagia, a disorder that compromises the progression of the food from the mouth to the stomach, causing clinical complications to the individual.
OBJECTIVE: - Characterize the life quality of the elderly swallowing affected by stroke.
METHODS: - Cross-sectional study conducted at the University Hospital, attended by 35 elderly with stroke, being 19 women and 16 men, with age between 60 and 90 years old, that self-reported satisfactory overall clinical picture. It was applied the Quality of Life Swallowing protocol. The data were statistically analyzed, by means of ANOVA tests, Spearman correlation, t test, with significance level of 5%.
RESULTS: - The mean age was 69.5 years; as for the scores obtained by the 35 participants in the 11 domains of the protocol, it was observed a change in score indicating severe to moderate impact in quality of life related to self-reported swallowing (31.8% to 59.5%); the domain that most interfered was the feeding time (31.8%).
CONCLUSION: - Elderly affected by stroke that present dysphagia has low scores in quality of life related to swallowing.

PMID: 28079235 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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