Osteoporosis knowledge and attitudes: a cross-sectional study among female nursing school students in Damascus

Sayed-Hassan, Rima; Bashour, Hyam; Koudsi, Abir

doi:10.1007/s11657-013-0149-9

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“…Our study findings of osteoporosis knowledge among women of Jazan were also comparable to the findings of other studies. 23 Despite the cultural differences with other studies, women in our study were highly knowledgeable about osteoporosis preventive food items including milk intake, cheese, fish, and eggs. However, women in our study showed less knowledge of exercise as preventive measure of osteoporosis because this specific item in our knowledge measurement might be less relevant to their culture.…”

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Osteoporosis Knowledge and Related Health Behavior among Women in Jazan Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Darout

Alamir

Sultana

2017

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice

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Introduction: Osteoporosis is a systemic bone disease that can be prevented to some extent by awareness of its risk factors and related health behavior. The aim of this study was to collect information about knowledge and awareness of osteoporosis among women living in Jazan and to describe the type of food habits, sociodemographic characteristics, and other osteoporosis-related health behavior. Materials and methods:Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection. The total participants were 546 women: 88 (16.1%) were health professionals and 458 (83.9%) non health professionals in the age range ≤20 to 50 years. Data collection was facilitated by a trained intern female doctor of dentistry whose task was to administer the distribution and collection of the questionnaires. Results:In total, 61.9% of health professionals and 54.3% of nonhealth professionals scored highly on knowledge of osteoporosis. The respondents of osteoporosis preventive food items were also highly knowledgeable with 50.6 and 52.6% of health and nonhealth professionals respectively. About 48.1% of health professional and 44.2% of nonhealth professional scored low on knowledge of osteoporosis behavior and attitude, vitamin supplements, and sunlight exposure. The age effect on osteoporosis knowledge was 33.8% in young age group and 30.7% in old age group. Conclusion:Our study shows that Jazan women were highly knowledgeable and aware about osteoporosis and its related health behavior and that health professionals and nonhealth professionals were equally aware about osteoporosis-related health matters.

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Osteoporosis Knowledge and Related Health Behavior among Women in Jazan Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Darout

Alamir

Sultana

2017

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice

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“…The studies were performed in various countries and regions. The majority of the studies are from Saudi Arabia [15,17,18,19], Sri Lanka [20], Canada [21,22,23,24], Thailand [25,26] and South Korea [27,28,29,30], Jordan [31,32], Malaysia [33,34], China [35,36] and the rest are from United States [35], Nigeria [4], Taiwan [37], Syria [38], India [39], Poland [40], Denmark [41], U.K. [42], Iran [43], Pakistan [44], Columbia [45], the Basque region (Spain) [46], Japan [47] and Australia [48]. Most of the studies included in this review used either self-designed or validated questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among subjects regarding bone health/osteoporosis.…”

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“…Only two studies [32,37] involved adolescents in their studies while others included young adult population. Background of the subjects varied among the studies; most of them were students from college [21,37], high school [32,37], polytechnic [4] or university [17,20,31,33,35,38,39,43,44,45]. The fields of study were medical and non-medical.…”

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A Review of Knowledge, Belief and Practice Regarding Osteoporosis among Adolescents and Young Adults

Chan

Mohamed

Ima‐Nirwana

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Osteoporosis is a major public health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Increasing knowledge, correcting health belief and promoting osteoprotective practices are effective measures for building and maintaining strong bone throughout ones’ life-span. This review aims to summarize the contemporary evidence on the knowledge, beliefs and practice of adolescents and young adults on bone health. We performed literature searches using the PubMed and Scopus databases to identify original studies from 2008 to May 2018 using the search terms “(knowledge OR beliefs OR attitude OR practice OR behaviours OR physical activity OR exercise OR diet OR nutrition) AND (young OR youth OR adolescents OR children OR young adults OR students OR teenager) AND (osteoporosis OR bone health)”. Of the 3206 articles found, 34 met the inclusion criteria. Studies showed that most adolescents and young adults had poor knowledge and expressed disinterest in osteoporosis. They believed that other diseases were more serious than osteoporosis, contributing to low perceived susceptibility and seriousness towards this disease. Popular media emerged as a platform to obtain information regarding osteoporosis. The lack of knowledge and misconceptions about osteoporosis led to poor osteoprotective practices. As a conclusion, the current evidence revealed a lack of awareness about osteoporosis among adolescents and young adults. Educational interventions may be useful to improve the awareness of osteoporosis among this population.

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“…A study conducted among Iranian women showed a direct relationship between calcium intake and perceived susceptibility (r = 0.068, p = 0.003), and a significant inverse relationship with perceived barriers (r = 0.047, p = 0.05) [29]. Sayed-Hassan et al [30] found that calcium intake and perceived barriers were significantly associated, but Edmonds et al [27] found little perceived barriers to calcium intake, low correlation and not significant between calcium intake and perceived barriers to exercise (r = 0.041, p = 0.217). However, cal-cium intake also had a low correlation to perceived benefits of calcium intake that did not reach statistical significance (r = 0.050, p = 0.159).…”

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Osteoporosis Health Beliefs, Knowledge and Life Habits among Women in Saudi Arabia

Al-Otaibi¹

2015

OJPM

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Osteoporosis has been recognized as a major public health problem by healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia. The present study examines the osteoporosis knowledge, health beliefs, and some of the life habits in two different Saudi women's groups (with family history, and without family history), to find the association of their knowledge and health beliefs with their preventive practice. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among a convenience sample of 288 young age (20 to 40 years) women attending the health centers in Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia. Both groups had an inadequate daily calcium intake with a significant difference between them. The women without family history had low mean of knowledge (8.9 ± 2.7) compared with family history group (9.3 ± 2.7) with a significant difference (p = 0.04). Based on the Osteoporosis Health Belief Scale (OHBS) subscale mean score, the perceived susceptibility and perceived severity were lower in women without family history with a significant difference between the groups (p = 0.02, 0.00; respectively). The family history group had lower mean score barriers of calcium intake and exercise with a significant difference between groups (p = 0.017, 0.013; respectively). Statistically significant correlation was found between calcium intake and OHBS subscale perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits of calcium intake and exercise, and perceived barriers of exercise only for the family history group. This study indicates inadequate daily calcium intake, with moderate knowledge of osteoporosis in Saudi women and highlights the need for diet and life habits interventions to improve calcium intake and exercise, which may help to reduce the burden of osteoporosis in Saudi Arabia.

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Osteoporosis knowledge and attitudes: a cross-sectional study among female nursing school students in Damascus

Abstract: The findings generally reveal poor knowledge about osteoporosis among nursing school female students at Damascus. Integration of osteoporosis in school curricula and public education efforts is urgently needed.

Cited by 37 publications

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Osteoporosis Knowledge and Related Health Behavior among Women in Jazan Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Osteoporosis Knowledge and Related Health Behavior among Women in Jazan Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A Review of Knowledge, Belief and Practice Regarding Osteoporosis among Adolescents and Young Adults

Osteoporosis Health Beliefs, Knowledge and Life Habits among Women in Saudi Arabia

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