Osteoporosis is a silent disease which involves the recognition of risk factors inherent to every woman in the determination of strategies to improve the quality of life. OBJECTIVE: to analyze the chance of women having risk factors for osteoporosis using the questionnaire proposed by the EVOS study and evaluate the performance in activities of daily living in relation to actions performed on most days by the IADLs questionnaire. The examination of bone densitometry was performed to diagnose osteoporosis. METHODOLOGY: we applied the plug with socio-demographic data and questionnaire EVOS the first time and after the IADLs questionnaire and examination of bone densitometry in postmenopausal women, aged = 60 years. RESULTS: we analyzed 58 women with a mean age of 67.3 years. The BMI, a risk factor, was considered as a predictor for the absence of osteoporosis, since women in this study were overweight. Sixteen (28%) had osteoporosis, with mean scores significantly lower than those who do not have osteoporosis of items: get shopping (p = 0.006), manages to do manual labor (p = 0.018) and taking care of finances (p = 0.014). CONCLUSION: the BMI variable in the logistic EVOs had relevance in the questionnaire. In the questionnaire analysis of IADLs, women with osteoporosis showed significance for those without osteoporosis for the items: go shopping, can make crafts and take care of finances.
Women's Health Services; Health of the Elderly; Quality of Life; Aged; Osteporosis; Densitometry
