Relação dos domínios de atividade e participação da classificação internacional de funcionalidade, incapacidade e saúde com o índice de Pfeffer em idosos

Abstract

To connect the domains of Activity and Participation of the ICF with the Pfeffer Index to complement the assessment of the elderly. Study of technological proposal through the adaptation of the Pfeffer Index relating it to the domains of activity and participation of the ICF, developed in three stages: literature search, using the Scielo, Lilacs and Pubmed databases with studies involving the ICF and the Pfeffer Index, followed by the understanding of the instruments and the codification of the ICF Activity and Participation domains with the Pfeffer Index. From the analysis of the ICF and the Pfeffer Index, an instrument was developed covering the relationship between them, described by the domains of Activity and Participation. Each of the 10 Pfeffer Index questions referred to 6 ICF subdomains. The Pfeffer Index alternatives were compared to the ICF qualifiers, bringing a difference of 10 points between them. The research showed that the application of the ICF complemented the Pfeffer Index and this correlation between the assessment instruments expressed the importance of data on the characteristics of the elderly's social life, mobility and functionality.