GAMBARAN FUNGSIONAL AKTIVITAS KEGIATAN SEHARI-HARI BERDASARKAN DERAJAT NYERI SENDI PADA PASIEN LANSIA DENGAN OSTEOARTRITIS LUTUT.

ABSTRACT

Increase in life expectancy resulted in increasing amount of elderly people. In
elderly, there is declining on tissue ability for repairing itself and maintaining normal
function (degeneration), then degenerative diseases are commonly found, one of them
is osteoarthritis (OA). Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis and
more common in elderly. Most common type of OA is knee joint. Besides
degenerative reason, OA is also caused by inflammation process that result in pain
and declining ability to do activity daily living (ADL). This research aims to find out
the functional ADL based on pain severity of knee joint in elderly with knee OA.
This research was conducted by cross sectional descriptive method with a
sample of 74 persons. The research subjects were knee OA patients in Geriatri Clinic
Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung in March - April 2011 period. Knee joint pain
severity was measured by Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and ADL was determined by
Barthel Index questionnaire.
From the research, the result was pain severity VAS mostly found in mild pain
category (47 people). Functional ADL Barthel Index was mostly found in mild
dependency category (44 people). Functional ADL Barthel Index based on pain
severity of knee joint was mostly found in mild pain category with mild dependency
(25 people). This showed that the more severe the knee pain, the more disturbed the
ADL.

Keywords : elderly, knee osteoarthritis, Barthel Index, pain severity VAS

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