Efeitos de uma abordagem multiprofissional na qualidade do sono de idosos com excesso de peso

Abstract

The aging leads to numerous modifications, and one of the points that should be guided is sleep alteration. The sleep have function of regeration os bory, therefore, the alteration os regeneration os the circadian cycle can interfere at clearance of hormones respondible for the control of hunger and saciety. Consequently, the objective of work was investigate os efects of one interdisciplinary program on sleep quality in overweight elderly people. It’s almost experimental study, carried out at the University of Maringá/Unicesumar, thought a research project called Geffend. Elderly were included >60 years old with overweight and/or obesity amd for the evolution of sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepines and apnea the questionnaires were used: Pittsburgh, Epworth and Berlin. The Shapiro-wilk test was performed for analysis of data normality and wilcoxon for comparison of pre and post intervetion. Were evaluted 58 elderly people (22,4% men and 77,6% women), aged 66 [63-68] and BMI 30 [26-34]. As for the questionnaires, the median of Pittsburgh pre was 8,0 [6,0-10,5] and post 7,0 [4,7-9,0] (p<0,001). On the Epworth scale, the median in the pre was 1,0 [0,0-2,0] post 0,0 [0,0-1,0] (p<0,05). It is concluded that there was a significant improvement in th quality of sleep in elderly people with overweight and/or obesity.