Grado de afectación del pie diabético y su repercusión en las actividades de la vida diaria, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca. Enero – junio 2018

Abstract

Antecedents: the Mellitus Diabetes type II considers one of the pandemics at world-wide level, is within the 10 first causes of decapacitate (1); between the incapacitants complications we have the diabetic foot, which repels in the physical conditioning for the accomplishment of daily tasks affecting of a direct way the quality of life (2). General objective: to determine the degree of affectation of the diabetic foot and its repercussion in the activities in the daily life. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca, 2018. Methodology: transversal descriptive study, that included to 41 patients with diabetes diagnosis mellitus type II with risk factors of developing to diabetic foot and diabetic foot; of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso during February-May 2018; after the signature of the informed consent it was applied: classification of Wagner to determine the degree of affectation of the diabetic foot and the index of Barthel to identify the degree of functional dependency. For the analysis and tabulation of data the program SPSS and descriptive statistic was used. Results: predominated older adults with 53.7%, 61% of feminine sex, 36.5% presented/displayed obesity, and 51.2% had “equal less or to 10 years” of evolution of diabetes. 65.9% of patients presented/displayed a “degree 0” of affection of the diabetic foot and 58.5% of patients had a “moderate dependency”. Conclusions: To greater degree of affection of the diabetic foot, greater dependency for the activities of the daily life (p: 0,001).