Limitação funcional de atividades em pessoas em pós alta medicamentosa de hanseníase

Abstract

INTROTUCTION: Leprosy is an infectious disease, which presents a slow evolution and signs on the skin and peripheral nerves are manifested. It represents a public health problem that can lead to deficiencies, which generate the limiting activities of the affected people and can bring drastic changes and result in several difficulties. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to verify the presence and degree of activity limitations assessed by the scale Screening of Activity Limitation and Safety Awareness (SALSA) drug after discharge of patients who had leprosy. METHODOLOGY: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study, which was conducted a survey of activity limitation data, through semi-structured interviews and the use of screening scale of Activity Limitation & Safety Awareness (SALSA), applied in 59 patients who were in High drug treated from 2001 to 2013 in the counties of Jaci and Mirassol in the state of São Paulo. RESULTS: 98 people treated in the period, 59 (60.20%) were interviewed, 30 (50.80%) males, 29 (49.20) women and the age ranged from 21 to 88 years, with dp (12.56), average (58.83), medium (61). Thus, it was verified that of the 59 patients the greatest difficulty is the movement of upper limbs and the risks although underreported appeared in self-care and movement of the upper limbs. CONCLUSION. It was concluded that was possible to realize that the individuals still face difficulties in their daily lives to perform some functions, requiring some means of intervention and / or orientation to base and enable the improvement of their quality of life.