2024, Number 09
Revista Médica Sinergia 2024; 9 (09)
Nutritional Grade and social loneliness in the geriatric patient of Family Medicine Unit No. 62
Rodríguez OKA, Ríos MR
Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: The OPS considers a person aged › 60 years to be geriatric. In this study protocol, the association between nutritional status and social loneliness will be estimated, since at this stage of aging patients are usually abandoned by their relatives, bringing with them changes. and nutritional deficiencies.Objective: Estimate the association between the degree of nutrition and social loneliness in the geriatric patient in the Family Medicine Unit No. 62.
Material and methods: An observational, analytical, cross-sectional and prospective study will be carried out. Using the formula for sample calculation of a finite proportion with a calculated sample of 365 patients, using simple random sampling. Entitled patients will be included, aged 65-75 years and who sign the informed consent. Mini Nutritional Assessment will be used to identify malnourished elderly with Cronbach's alpha of 0.9 and ESTE II Scale that evaluates social loneliness with a Cronbach's alphaof 0.72.
Data analysis: At first, a univariate analysis will be carried out for qualitative variables, through frequencies and percentages and will be represented by bar graphs; For quantitative variables, if they are freely distributed, they will be analyzed with median and maximum-minimum values, and if they are normally distributed, they will be analyzed with mean and standard deviation. In a second moment, a bivariate analysis will be carried out to estimate the relationship between the variable degree of nutrition and social loneliness, the Mann-Whitney U test will be used with a value of (p=‹0.05).
Results: A study was carried out to determine the association between the degree of nutrition and social loneliness in 365 patients assigned to the UMF No. 62 IMSS, where 32.1% (117 patients) were found with a low degree of loneliness, with a degree of Medium loneliness was found in 42.2% (154 patients) and with a high degree of loneliness in 25.8% (94 patients).
Conclusion: In conclusion we can say that our research work showed us that malnutrition in geriatric patients is related to high social loneliness.
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