AVALIAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE PACIENTES COM ARTRITE REUMATÓIDE SUBMETIDOS À CINESIOTERAPIA.

Abstract

Patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have their quality of life compromised due to the restrictions in their daily life activities, which are caused by the physical limitations brought by the disease. The therapies have the purpose of relieving the pain, minimizing or preventing the preliminary and secondary disabilities caused by the disease and also to enable the patients to monitor themselves. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of the cinesiotherapy on the quality of life of the women with the disease. The study based on a group of women with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed after the age of 18 by a rheumatologist. Classified in functional degrees II and III, except for the patients with comorbities. The study proposal included three stages: two evaluations of the quality of life of the patient and the therapeutical momentum characterized by the cinesiotherapy applied. The evaluation process consisted of the application a patterned questionnaire to a group of thirty-six women (SF-36). This group was randomly divided into two groups of the same size and then submitted to espcific anamnesis. The women in the group of cases (group I) were evaluated using the information on the SF-36 questionnaire concerning their life quality. And then they went through a program of global cinesiotherapy. After that, these women were evaluated a second time about their quality of life at the end of the period (40 days). The women in the control group (group II) did not go through the physical therapy treatment, but they were evaluated a second time concerning their quality of life. The variables that could interfere with the prognosis and development of the disease were analyzed by the anamnesis: age, time of disease, rheumatoid factor, number of joints, functional degree, VHS, scholarship and medicines, comparing at the two groups, via the test qui-squared and test u-man whitney, using á 0,05 to prove the groups were homogenous. The data from the query S-F36 have been evaluated and submitted at the validation statistic , by using - in case that the test t student , the test u-man whitney and the test wilcoxon In order to be validated, the data in the questionnaires were statistically analyzed using á 0,05. For the evidence from the normality as of each of the variables , it uses - in case that the test as of adherence kologorov smirnov. Confirms - in case that as soon , via the analysis from the statistic significance, than it is to the handling of cinesiotherapy influenced positively the status of life of the patients of the group I(work group). Statistically speaking, we can state that the cinesiotherapy influenced positively the quality of life of the patients in group I, whose women with rheumatoid arthritis were in better life conditions than the ones in the control group.