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Falls represent a public health issue around the world and prevention is an important part of the politics of many countries. The standard method of evaluating balance is posturography using a force platform, which has high financial costs. Other instruments, such as portable devices and smartphones, have been evaluated as low-cost alternatives to the screening of balance control. Although smartphones and wearables have different sizes, shapes, and weights, they have been systematically validated for static balance control tasks. Different studies have applied different experimental configurations to validate the inertial measurements obtained by these devices. We aim to evaluate the concurrent validity of a smartphone and a portable device for the evaluation of static balance control in the same group of participants. Twenty-six healthy and young subjects comprised the sample. The validity for static balance control evaluation of built-in accelerometers inside portable smartphone and wearable devices was tested considering force platform recordings as a gold standard for comparisons. A linear correlation (r) between the quantitative variables obtained from the inertial sensors and the force platform was used as an indicator of the concurrent validity. Reliability of the measures was calculated using Intraclass correlation in a subsample (n = 14). Smartphones had 11 out of 12 variables with significant moderate to very high correlation (r > 0.5, p < 0.05) with force platform variables in open eyes, closed eyes, and unipedal conditions, while wearable devices had 8 out of 12 variables with moderate to very high correlation (r > 0.5, p < 0.05) with force platform variables under the same task conditions. Significant reliabilities were found in closed eye conditions for smartphones and wearables. The smartphone and wearable devices had concurrent validity for the static balance evaluation and the smartphone had better validity results than the wearables for the static balance evaluation.
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Abstract Introduction: Endometriosis is a disorder that can significantly affect quality of life (QOL) and interfere in biological, psychological, social, marital and family aspects. Objective: To analyze the influence of endometriosis on the QOL of women diagnosed with the disease. Methods: The study was carried out from March to April 2018, with 10 volunteers from the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará Foundation, with a clinical diagnosis of endometriosis. The Portuguese version of the endometriosis health profile questionnaire (EHP-30) was applied in order to assess QOL in women with this pathology. Results: The sociodemographic results revealed a predominance of women aged between 29 and 55 years, most of whom were married (6) and high school graduates (5). Seven of the ten volunteers had previous pregnancies. Of the aspects evaluated in the EHP-30, 79% of the items associated with pelvic pain in the core questionnaire were present in the participants. In other questionnaires, sexual life (82%) was the most affected index, followed by professional life (70%) and infertility (58.82%). Conclusion: The aspects of QOL most impacted by pelvic pain associated with endometriosis in the women evaluated were sexuality and professional life, leading to biopsychosocial trauma.
Resumo Introdução: A endometriose é um distúrbio que pode atingir amplamente a qualidade de vida (QV) e interferir no âmbito biológico, psicológico, social, marital e familiar. Objetivo: Analisar a influência da endometriose na QV de mulheres portadoras dessa patologia. Métodos: O estudo foi realizado no período de março a abril de 2018, com dez voluntárias da Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, que apresentavam diagnóstico clínico de endometriose. Aplicou-se o Questionário de Qualidade de vida em Endometriose (EHP-30), versão em português, a fim de avaliar a QV em mulheres com endometriose. Resultados: Os resultados sociodemográficos mostra-ram uma predominância de mulheres com idade entre 29 e 55 anos, sendo a maioria casada (6) e com colegial completo (5). Sete das dez voluntárias tiveram gestações. Dentre os âmbitos avaliados pelo EHP-30, o questionário central de QV relacionado à dor pélvica teve 79% dos itens comprometendo as participantes. Nos demais questionários, a vida sexual (82%) foi o índice mais afetado, seguido da vida profissional (70%) e infertilidade (58,82%). Conclusão: Nas mulheres avaliadas, os aspectos da QV mais influenciados pela dor pélvica relacionada à endometriose foram a sexualidade e a vida profissional, acarretando prejuízos biopsicossociais.
