Caracteriza？？o da qualidade de vida de adolescentes com escoliose idiopática

introduction: idiopathic scoliosis (is) patients have poor self-esteem and self-image/appearance perception, more spine pain and feel less healthy and less happy than individuals without spinal deformities. objective: to evaluate the quality of life (qol) of is adolescents using the br-srs-22r self-administrated questionnaire. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study. thirty is patients, mean age of 15.5 (± 2.6) years old and mean curvature magnitude of 28.4 (± 21.0) cobb degrees were selected. descriptive statistics presented the frequency distribution scores of each br-srs-22r domain. results: in the function domain, it was observed that 93.3% of the volunteers had a score above 3. for the self-image domain, there was a greater distribution of points in which 26.7% scored between 2 and 2.9. the distribution of the pain and mental health scores was similar, with a higher concentration between three and 3.9 points (36.7 and 40%, respectively). in the treatment satisfaction domain, 78.6% of volunteers scored above 4. conclusion: findings for pain, physical functional and self-appearance domains were in agreement with those previous published. presented results demonstrated that, in a sample composed mainly by is patients being conservatively treat with physical therapy, the condition impact was mild, in pain, appearance and mental health domains, to weak in physical function domain.