Estructura familiar, dolor y capacidad funcional en adolescentes con enfermedades reumáticas

Introduction: child rheumatic diseases may affect the quality of life of the sick children and their relatives. There is evidence that the family functioning has a direct impact on the children´s and adolescents´health. Objective: to analyze the relationship of the family structure, pain and disability with rheumatic diseases. Methods: correlational, descriptive, cross-sectional and exploratory study. The sample was made up of 52 adolescents who went to the pediatric rheumatology service of "Pedro Borrás" hospital. The information was collected with the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) and structured interviews to the adolescent and the accompanying relative. Results: the one-factor variance analysis showed statistically significant differences between the family types for the pain intensity ranges reported by the adolescents (F=3.892; p=.028) as well as in the functional capacity, particularly getting up (F=4.278; p=.020) and fetching something (F=3.447; p=.042), which were both more affected in adolescents who live in one-parent families. Conclusions: impaired functioning and pain are mainly observed in adolescents suffering rheumatic diseases, who live in one-parent families. © 2017, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.

• Autores: Martín Carbonell, Marta de la Caridad; Oceguera D.C.; Betancourt D.S.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/42412
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00810; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/42412
• Palabra clave: Adolescents; Family structure; Functional capacity; Pain; Rheumatic diseases in children
• Rights: closedAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb