Capacidade funcional de vítimas de acidentes de trânsito em Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

Violence in traffic is a growing problem for public health in the world, because their damage have as consequences, beyond mortality, disability and trauma left by the burden on the healthcare system. Campo Grande is the seventh Brazilian capital with greater violence in traffic, considering the violence in traffic, Campo Grande ranks seventh in the number of events which led to this study, which aimed to evaluate the functional capacity of victims of traffic accidents. The participants were 100 patients victims of traffic accidents, admitted to the orthopedics sector of the Beneficent Society of Campo Grande - Santa Casa and we used the scales of activities of daily living (ADLS), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) scale trauma to assess pain and return to work. The functional capacity assessment has identified that all the individuals had total functional or partially dependent on post-trauma and most were unable to return to work exercised prior to the traumatic event, depriving themselves to perform tasks that were no restrictions, which impacts negatively on the health and lives of these people and their families.