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Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
OBJECTIVE: to ascertain the influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' balance and risk of falls. METHOD: to evaluate the risk of falls, the Berg Balance Scale and the Timed Get Up and Go test were used; and for measuring postural balance, static stabilometry was used, wit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25296149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.3515.2463 |
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author | Batista, Wagner Oliveira Alves, Edmundo de Drummond Porto, Flávia Pereira, Fabio Dutra Santana, Rosimere Ferreira Gurgel, Jonas Lírio |
author_facet | Batista, Wagner Oliveira Alves, Edmundo de Drummond Porto, Flávia Pereira, Fabio Dutra Santana, Rosimere Ferreira Gurgel, Jonas Lírio |
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description | OBJECTIVE: to ascertain the influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' balance and risk of falls. METHOD: to evaluate the risk of falls, the Berg Balance Scale and the Timed Get Up and Go test were used; and for measuring postural balance, static stabilometry was used, with acquisition of the elliptical area of 95% and mean velocities on the x and y axes of center of pressure displacement. Parametric and nonparametric measures of association and comparison (α<0.05) were used. RESULTS: there was no significant correlation between the length of institutionalization and the tests for evaluation of risk of falling, neither was there difference between groups and within subgroups, stratified by length of institutionalization and age. In the stabilometric measurements, there was a negative correlation between the parameters analyzed and the length of institutionalization, and difference between groups and within subgroups. CONCLUSION: this study's results point to the difficulty of undertaking postural control tasks, showing a leveling below the clinical tests' reference scores. In the stabilometric behavior, one should note the reduction of the parameters as the length of institutionalization increases, contradicting the assumptions. This study's results offer support for the development of a multi-professional model for intervention with the postural control and balance of older adults living in homes for the aged. |
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spelling | pubmed-42926582015-01-26 Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural balance and risk of falls: a transversal study Batista, Wagner Oliveira Alves, Edmundo de Drummond Porto, Flávia Pereira, Fabio Dutra Santana, Rosimere Ferreira Gurgel, Jonas Lírio Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Original Articles OBJECTIVE: to ascertain the influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' balance and risk of falls. METHOD: to evaluate the risk of falls, the Berg Balance Scale and the Timed Get Up and Go test were used; and for measuring postural balance, static stabilometry was used, with acquisition of the elliptical area of 95% and mean velocities on the x and y axes of center of pressure displacement. Parametric and nonparametric measures of association and comparison (α<0.05) were used. RESULTS: there was no significant correlation between the length of institutionalization and the tests for evaluation of risk of falling, neither was there difference between groups and within subgroups, stratified by length of institutionalization and age. In the stabilometric measurements, there was a negative correlation between the parameters analyzed and the length of institutionalization, and difference between groups and within subgroups. CONCLUSION: this study's results point to the difficulty of undertaking postural control tasks, showing a leveling below the clinical tests' reference scores. In the stabilometric behavior, one should note the reduction of the parameters as the length of institutionalization increases, contradicting the assumptions. This study's results offer support for the development of a multi-professional model for intervention with the postural control and balance of older adults living in homes for the aged. Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4292658/ /pubmed/25296149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.3515.2463 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Batista, Wagner Oliveira Alves, Edmundo de Drummond Porto, Flávia Pereira, Fabio Dutra Santana, Rosimere Ferreira Gurgel, Jonas Lírio Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural balance and risk of falls: a transversal study |
title | Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
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title_full | Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
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title_fullStr | Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
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title_full_unstemmed | Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
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title_short | Influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study
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title_sort | influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' postural
balance and risk of falls: a transversal study |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25296149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.3515.2463 |
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