Author(s)

Suellen Duarte de Oliveira Matos¹, Iraktânia Vitorino Diniz¹, Adriana Lira Rufino de Lucena¹, Smalyanna Sgren da Costa Andrade¹, Karen Krystine Gonçalves de Brito¹, Elizabeth Souza Silva de Aguiar¹, Emanuelle Malzac Freire de Santana¹, Mailson Marques de Sousa¹, Ana Paula Marques Andrade de Souza¹, Hemílio Fernandes Campos Coêlho², Mirian Alves da Silva¹, Marta Miriam Lopes Costa¹, Maria Julia Guimarães Oliveira Soares¹, Simone Helena dos Santos Oliveira¹

¹Graduate Program in Nursing, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
²Departament of Statistics, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Paraíba, Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the association of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, and risk factors with occurrence of pressure ulcers in institutionalized elderly people. Method: This cross-sectional, analytical study, in quantitative approach, performed from the database analysis linked to the project “Pressure Ulcer in institutionalized elderly people: Association of incidence with the risk factors to functional and nutritional assessment” developed in six long-stay institutions for the elderly people in João Pessoa. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Associations were made through chi square test and Odds Ratio. Results: The clinical conditions of significant associations with the occurrence of pressure ulcers were the variables neurological disorders (p = 0.011) and visual impairment (p = 0.005). As for risk factors, the most important was fecal incontinence (p < 0.001), urinary incontinence (p < 0.001), cognitive impairment (p = 0.007) and physical limitation (p < 0.001). The chance for the occurrence of injury was nine times higher for elderly people with physical limitations and about three times higher among those who use diapers. Conclusion: The analysis of the associations pointed out problems that require intervention in order to prevent health implications of the elderly people and to minimize the risk and occurrence of this injury.

Elderly People, Institutions for the Elderly People, Pressure Ulcer, Health Profile, Risk Factors

Oliveira Matos, S. , Vitorino Diniz, I. , Rufino de Lucena, A. , Costa Andrade, S. , Gonçalves de Brito, K. , Silva de Aguiar, E. , Freire de Santana, E. , de Sousa, M. , Andrade de Souza, A. , Campos Coêlho, H. , da Silva, M. , Lopes Costa, M. , Oliveira Soares, M. and Santos Oliveira, S. (2017) Pressure Ulcers in Institutionalized Elderly People: Association of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors. Open Journal of Nursing, 7, 111-122. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2017.71010.