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E-POSTER PRESENTATIONS
EP 536
E-Poster: Pressure Ulcer
ARE THE PRESSURE ULCERS THE MAIN REASON FOR ADMISSION TO
A LONG TERM CARE UNIT?
Pere Coca Alves 1 , Sonia Carmona 1
1 Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona, Spain).
Aim: To know the importance that Pressure Ulcers have at the time to formalize the
application entrance in a Long Term Care Unit, with respect to other factors (functional
limitation and cognitive impairment).
Methods: Descriptive study of 491 cases, through study of the corresponding
applications entrance in a Long Term Care Unit, in the period 2005-2012.
Variable of the Study: 1.Sex; 2.Patients with PU: Number of patients with PU and
number of PU by patient; 3.Severity of the wound, measured by the NPUAP/EPUAP
rating system ; 4.Level of dependence of basic activities in daily living, measured
through the Barthel ADL index; 5. Patient’s cognitive impairment, measured through the
Pfeiffer test.
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Conclusions: The total number of patients with pressure ulcers is high (28.7%), but we
believe that this fact alone is not determinative to apply for admission in a Long Temp
Care Unit. We believe that the motives for a family to seek entry of a patient in these
units is the sum of a series of geriatric syndromes. Versus 14.6% patients who have two
or more PU, and 12.2% with lesions of category III and IV (data indicating a greater
need for care), we see that 93.1% of the patients studied, have total or severe
dependence in basic activities of daily living. A 81.7% have a moderate or severe
cognitive impairment. This leads us to conclude that the complexity of dealing with these
type of patients and their high dependency care, is what determines the application of
institutionalization.
E-POSTER: QUALITY OF LIFE
EP 537
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH LEG ULCER
E-Poster: Quality of Life
Anargyros Kouris 1 , Eftychia Zouridaki 1 , Christos Christodoulou 2 , Polyxeni Karimali 1 ,
Iacovoula Chatzimichael 1 , Fotini Liordou 1 , George Kontochristopoulos 1 ,
Nicoletta Zakopoulou 1
1 Andreas Sygros (Athens, Greece);
2 Second Department of Psychiatry Attikon University Hospital (Athens, Greece).
Aim: To study the personality characteristics regarding quality of life, anxiety,
depression, self-esteem and loneliness in patients with leg ulcers.
Methods: Sixty one patients with leg ulcers, aged 55- 77 (mean 62 Years) with no
previous psychiatric history and fifty five healthy controls, were recruited. All entered
subjects were evaluated for quality of life using the Dermatology Life Quality Index
(DLQI) scale, anxiety and depression using the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale
(HADS-scale), loneliness using the Loneliness Scale-Version 3 (UCLA-scale) and selfesteem
using the ROSSENBERG-scale. Descriptive statistical analysis and t-test for
quantitative comparisons were performed.
Results: There were twenty nine females and thirty two males. Statistically significant
difference in quality of life between the patients with leg ulcers and controls was
observed (14,37 ± 3,55 versus 9,68 ± 3,13 p