Low knowledge of osteoporosis and its risk factors in urban Indian adults from Pune city, India

Abstract

ObjectiveTo assess knowledge of osteoporosis and its risk factors and to explore associations between knowledge and various sociodemographic factors in Indian adults.DesignCross-sectional study. The Revised Osteoporosis Knowledge Test (OKT) was used to assess knowledge of osteoporosis. Four scores (OKT-total, range 0–32; OKT-exercise, range 0–20; OKT-nutrition, range 0–26; OKT-risk factors, range 0–14) were generated by giving 1 point to every correct answer and 0 points for incorrect or ‘not known’ answers.SettingTertiary-care hospital in Pune city, India.ParticipantsAdults aged 40–75 years (n477; 234 males) enrolled through voluntary routine health checks and health camps.ResultsMean age of the study population was 54·6 (sd9·5) years. Half the participants were aware of osteoporosis and could correctly define it. Women showed significantly higher median OKT-total and OKT-nutrition scores than men (P<0·05). Those with higher education and higher socio-economic status had significantly higher scores in both men and women (P<0·05). All four scores were significantly higher in both men and women who could correctly define osteoporosis (P<0·05). All four scores were significantly higher in women with a family history of osteoporosis (P<0·05) but not in men (P>0·1).ConclusionsUnderstanding about osteoporosis and its risk factors is low in the present cohort of Indian men and women. There is need to create awareness programmes aimed at both men and women especially targeting those with lower education, lower socio-economic status and no previous exposure to osteoporosis.

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“…Osteoporosis knowledge levels indicate that a significant portion of participants in the study had inadequate knowledge about osteoporosis, and only 2.1 to 4.6% showed acceptable knowledge levels, with more than 80% correct responses.Similar types of results were reported about osteoporosis knowledge by Palaclous et al, (2009), Doheny et al, (2007), and Kadam et al, (2018)19 . The results indicate that the people falling in the age group of 18-39 have low levels of knowledge about osteoporosis and make up the majority (67%) of the total participants, whereas in a study byKadam et al, (2018), it showed that people over 40 years had low knowledge levels in the majority19 . In our study, both men and women did not show any significance in between level of knowledge of osteoporosis and level of education, whereas in other studies it was shown that there was a level of significance between knowledge of osteoporosis and education like Etemadifir et al, (2013),Shawa et al, (2011), and some other studies like Yeap et al, (2010), and El-Tawab et al,(2015), observed that a higher socioeconomic level of educated and working women was associated with easier and more access to quality health information 20-23 .…”

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“…Socioeconomic factors such as age, gender, education level, and socioeconomic status play their role in the occurrence of osteoporosis [6], [7]. In literature, it has been noted that family history, inactive lifestyles, corticosteroids use, no milk use, no fruits and vegetables use, no intake of calcium supplements, no sunshine exposure, smoking, history of chronic diseases, and high body mass weight all are linked with increased incidence of osteoporosis [1], [8], [9], [10]. Although osteoporosis and its linked risk factors are well studied in many countries, however, in Pakistan, the risk factors of osteoporosis are under-studied and especially in the region where this research has been conducted.…”