A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention

Abstract

Abstract. Osteoporosis, a chronic disease with no therapeutic cure, affects a growing number of people as the aging population in China rapidly increases. Therefore, developing an evidence-based model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention is required. In the present study, an osteoporosis club was established, which is a novel model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention. A unified management of membership was used based on a digitized database. A total of 436 patients with osteoporosis were randomly assigned to the osteoporosis club group or the self-management control group. For the osteoporosis club group, multiple activities of health education were performed, including monthly systematic health education lectures, exercise programs and communication parties once a year. For the control group, the participants took charge of their own musculoskeletal health. All data of the participants were collected and evaluated prior to and following intervention. In the pre-intervention assessment, no significant difference was identified in the health education between the two groups. Through the four-year intervention, the osteoporosis knowledge, health beliefs, living behavior, medication compliance, quality of life and bone mineral density of the osteoporosis club group were improved significantly compared with the control group (P<0.001), while the pain degree of the osteoporosis club group was relieved significantly more compared with the control group (P<0.001). The results in the present study suggest that setting up an osteoporosis club is an evidence-based model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention in China.

Osteoporosis awareness among patients in Singapore (OASIS)—a community hospital perspective

“…With regard to age, it did not correlate with levels of osteoporosis knowledge in this study. This concurred with findings from two studies performed in the USA and Canada [30], but differed from a multi-center study in Turkey which showed an inverse relationship between age and level of osteoporosis awareness [31]. A potential reason for the differences could be due to the cognitive function of study participants as patients with moderate and severe cognitive impairment were excluded in this study.…”

Applying the information–motivation–behavioral model to explore the influencing factors of self-management behavior among osteoporosis patients

“…Given the long-term health damage and large economic losses associated with OP, there is an urgent need to improve the prognosis of OP. No ideal pharmacological agent has been identified for the treatment of OP [5], but safe and effective medications are available to reduce the risk for fractures [6]. However, OP medication adherence remains a major problem.…”

Super elderly patients with intertrochanteric fractures do not predict worse outcomes and higher mortality than elderly patients: a propensity score matched analysis

“…It has been reported that the number of elderly Chinese people aged over 60 had reached 249 million, accounting for 17.9% of the total population by 2018, and it has been estimated that by 2050, that number will exceed 450 million, comprising over 30% of the total population [ 1 ]. Wang et al [ 2 ] also reported that the elderly population in China comprised nearly 20% of the elderly population worldwide. Intertrochanteric fractures, as one of the major orthopedic clinical problems in China that is a common cause of illness, disability and mortality in the elderly people, leads to a heavy socioeconomic pressure on society.…”