Independência funcional e o estado confusional de pessoas sujeitas a programa de reabilitação.

Objective: to know the influence of the confusional state in the recovery of the functional independence of the patient undergoing rehabilitation. Method: descriptivecorrelational, quantitative and cross-sectional study, with non-probabilistic sampling, of accidental typology. Inclusion criteria: measure of functional independence ≤90 and patients subject to immobility. Exclusion criteria: patients with neoplastic diseases and with a Glasgow coma scale <11. For data collection, a sociodemographic questionnaire and the NEECHAM and MIF scales were used. Results: the sample data (n = 40), reveal an age of 76.48 years, mostly women, married, with the elementary school and on average were subject to 49.60 days of immobility. The confusional state had a significant improvement from the 1st assessment on admission, in which 52.2% of the individuals presented with moderate to severe confusion, for the 2nd assessment at discharge, in which 85% were not confused. Functional independence improved by 38.03%. Conclusion: confusion is a neuropsychiatric problem that interferes with attention and cognition, namely the capacity for perception. However, even confused participants, when submitted to a rehabilitation nursing program, tend to regain functional independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]