Estado nutricional de idosos institucionalizados de Uberlândia

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Danielle Fernandes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; BR; Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde; Ciências da Saúde; UFU
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estado nutricional; Idosos; Instituições de longa permanência; Ciências médicas; Idosos - Nutrição; Nutritional status; Elderly; Long-term institution; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/12721; https://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2011.43

Background: Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon leding to a rising demand for elderly long-term institutions (LTI). The institutionalization sets out the changes that might affect the seniors nutritional state, which prevalence is associated to a higher risk of morbidity and mortality. Objective: To evaluate the nutritional status of elderly LTI residents registered at the Secretariat of Social Development of Uberlândia-MG, and characterize all the LPI evaluated. Design: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the LTI of Uberlândia - MG, from October to December 2010, with elderly people (60 years or older), both sexes, who agreed to participate in the study and in the conditions of anthropometric measures. Socio-demographic data were collected to verify the group's profile. To assess the seniors nutritional status, the full version of MNA was used. The anthropometric evaluation was performed in order to complete the items of anthropometric assessment of MNA, like: weight, height, arm circumference and calf. To describe and characterize the LTI, data were collected and recorded in a specific form by interviewing the institution s authorities. Results: From the 209 elderly residents during the data collection period, 196 underwent nutritional assessment. Most of the women were between 80-89 years (34%), widows (50.7%), without children (45.4%) and had 1 to 10 years of institutionalization (66%). It was verified that 68.2% of the subjects were literate and 31.1% were using more than three drugs a day. It was observed that 82.6% of the participants had some nutritional problem, and between the undernourished, 91.4% had neuropsychological problems. Conclusions: The MNA was presented as an efficient method for assessing the nutritional status of this population, suggesting a high frequency of nutritional risk. The characteristics of LTI may contribute to the nutritional status found. Analytical studies could help to elucidate the factors determining the nutritional status of elderly people and the relationships with their LTI.