Análise do desempenho motor associado ao estado nutricional de idosos cadastrados no Programa Saúde da Família, no município de Vitória de Santo Antão-PE

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Lisandra Delfino De Albuquerque Soares²  Florisbela De Arruda Câmara E Siqueira Campos²  Maria Das Graças Rodrigues De Araújo²  Ana Patrícia Siqueira Tavares Falcão¹  Bruna Rafaela Dornelas De Andrade Lima²  Danielle Ferreira De Siqueira²  Etiene Oliveira Da Silva Fittipaldi²  Silvana Gonçalves Brito De Arruda²  Zelyta Pinheiro De Faro² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro Acadêmico de Vitória Núcleo de Educação Física e Ciências do EsporteVitória de Santo Antão PE

关键词: Geriatric assessment;    Elderly nutrition;    Physical activity;    Avaliação geriátrica;    Nutrição do idoso;    Atividade física;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-81232012000500023

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The scope of this paper was to investigate the relationship between the nutritional status and the motor skills of the elderly registered in the Family Health Program in the urban area of Vitória de Santo Antão in the State of Pernambuco, by means of a transversal epistemological descriptive-analytical field study. The participants of this survey were 235 elders, both male and female of 60-years-old and over registered in the family health program in the urban area of the city. The nutritional status was evaluated by the body mass index and the circumference of the calf. Four motor tests were used to evaluate motor performance: Time Up&Go, Tinetti's Index, Functional Reach and Unipodal Support. The associations were checked using Spearman's correlation. The association of the nutritional status with the motor tests was statistically significant among males* or females**: (Time Up&Go rho = 0.290* / 350**; Functional Reach rho = 0.232* / 352**; Tinetti's Index rho = 243* / 363** and Unipodal Support rho = 221* / 475**. The evaluation of the results revealed an association between nutritional status and functional capacity of the elders no matter what gender; with obesity being a limiting nutritional condition to adequate performance in the tests.

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