Evde Bakım Hastalarında D Vitamini Düzeylerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency has become an epidemic for all age groups in the world. The aim of this research is to evaluate the vitamin D deficiency in-home care patients and related lifestyle reasons. Method: This research is done on Home Care patients registered to İstanbul Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital between January 2015 – February 2016. After getting the patients’ vitamin D records retrospectively, we have inquired patients if they have regular exposure to sunlight, whether they have a history of fracture or osteoporosis, and other related lifestyles.D vitamin deficiency was grouped as; normal(>30ng/ml), insufficiency(20-30ng/ml), deficiency(lower than 20ng/ml)and the severe deficiency(lower than <10ng/ml). We used the SPSS20.0 program; frequency, chi-square, and T-test were evaluated. Results: Totally 232 patients were included in this study. There were 160(%69) women and 72 (%31) men. Vitamin D insufficiency was found in 11.2% (n=26), and vitamin D deficiency in 70.3% (n=163). 70.1% (n=96) of 137 patients who answered the questions were female and 29.9% (n=41) were male. 86.1% of them (n=118) did not benefit from sunlight, 63.5% (n=87) had not received vitamin D treatment before. Vitamin D deficiency was detected in 79.3% (n=69) of those who did not receive vitamin D treatment, and a significant relationship was found between them. Conclusion: In our study, we have found that most homecare patients have low levels of Vitamin D, do not have regular exposure to sunlight, not do exercise regularly. Vitamin D replacement is vital in home-care patients as vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of osteoporosis, falls, and fractures.