Affiliation:
1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Abstract
ABSTRACT The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is still a distant and often feared tool in the area of older adults health. This study aimed to describe the inabilities to perform activities of daily living (ADLs), limitations in the physical-functional performance, and the perception of the surrounding environment in community-dwelling older adults from the extreme South of Santa Catarina, classifying them according to the domains and qualifiers proposed by the ICF. This is a cross-sectional study, with older adults of both sexes. The analyzed variables were classified and categorized according to the ICF: (1) Body Functions and Structures: physical-functional performance tests; (2) Activity and Participation: ADL self-assessment instrument; and (3) Environmental factors: self-perception of the surrounding environment. A total of 308 older adults were evaluated, most of them were women (57.8%) and aged 60-69 years (54.7%). There were higher prevalence of moderate/severe difficulty in the 5-times sit-to-stand test (5TSTS) (66.2%), of moderate/severe disability in the activity of cutting toenails (21.2%), and no reports of places for the practice of physical activity near the residence (72.5%). As for the ICF qualifiers, there was greater “moderate/severe difficulty” for the 5TSTS in the “Body Function and Structure” categories and in the task of cutting toenails in the “Activity and Participation” categories. In the category “Environmental factors,” there was a higher prevalence of lack of places for physical activity in the neighborhood.
Subject
General Medicine,General Materials Science
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