Elderly s nutritional counseling with functional bowel constipation: causes of randomized clinic trial / Aconselhamento nutricional em idosos com constipação intestinal funcional: efeitos de ensaio clínico aleatorizado

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2008

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Introduction: The elderly represent a growing demographic line not only in the developed countries but also the ones in developing. The bowel constipation is a related symptom for 24 to 40% of those persons, affecting 26% men e 34% women. The consumption of diet full in dietary fibers and liquids helps on decreasing of claims related to functional intestinal constipation. The elderly need to a special attention with diversified dietetics intervention through specific educated actions. Objective: Analyze the effects of client-centered nutritional counseling, in elderly with functional bowel constipation enrolled in geriatric ambulatory. Methods: The studying was experimental as a randomized clinic trial carried out between April 2002 and November 2003. Elderly were assigned in intervention group (n=19) and control (n=21) and both groups participated of seven consults, one per month. The client-centered nutritional counseling was the educating model adopted in consults with the intervention group. That model takes into account the education as the process of teaching, training and make it easy, that allows the changing of information between the educator and the student through understanding language inside of a place that lead to learning. The variables analyzed were: Body Mass Index (BMI), practice of physical activity, food intake (energy, carbohydrate, lipids, group of fruits, group of leguminous, ingestion of liquids, group of cereals, intake of dietary fibers), using of total drugs and laxatives and the claims that characterizes the functional bowel constipation. The food intake was evaluated with 24 hours recall on household measures and the physical activity by Baecke Questionnaire. The data were examined critically through Analyses of Variance With Repeated Measures (parametric and non-parametric) and Bonferroni s method. The significance level adopted to the tests was 5%. Results: The youngest elderly of control group were heavier than the oldest since the beginning of accompanying (p=0,001) and both group didn t change the practicing of physical activity. The intervention group increased the consumption of liquids since of fourth consult up the ending of segment when compared with initial interview (p=0,031) and, in what refers to ingestion of leguminous, it was observed an increasing in consumption in forth (p=0,028) and sixth (p=0,042) consults in the comparing between the groups. Relating the using of total drugs, not only the control group but also intervention group didn t change their consumption (p=0,650), on the other hand, the control group consumed more laxatives during the accompanying when compared to intervention group (p=0,018). Both groups presented reduction of claims that characteristic the functional bowel constipation during the segment. Conclusions: The results of that studying indicate that the client-centered counseling is efficient as an educative approach to the changing of alimentary behavior and consequent reduction of intestinal claims that characterize the functional bowel constipation.

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elderly idosos constipação intestinal nutritional counseling bowel constipation aconselhamento nutricional

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