31Jan 2017

HEALTH BELIEFS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPOROISIS RADIOLOGICAL SCREENING IN OLDER WOMEN AND MEN IN JEDDAH CITY 2016.

Crossref Cited-by Linking logo

  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • References
  • Cite This Article as
  • Corresponding Author

Background: Osteoporosis has been recognized as a major public health problem by healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia. Objective: The present study was designed to examine health beliefs about osteoporosis and osteoporosis radiological screening in a large group of older women and men to determine barriers to screening. Methodology: This is a self-administrated questionnaire conducted among a sample of 460 man and women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Results:The majority of the subjects had poor knowledge about osteoporosis and 50.4% of the subject had no practice to avoid the disease. The level of education showed a significant correlation with knowledge of osteoporosis. Also, the young age, higher level of education and females had significantly higher correlation with good practice. Conclusion: This study indicated a lack of awareness and practice about osteoporosis. There was a significant association between knowledge and practice with level of education. Also, the female gender and age showed higher practice scores. All these results showed the significance of more health staff involvement regarding to awareness campaign about osteoporosis.

  1. Drake MT, Clarke BL, Lewiecki EM.The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Osteoporosis. Clinical therapeutics. 2015;37(8):1837-50.
  2. Sadat-Ali M, Al-Habdan IM, Al-Turki HA, Azam MQ.An epidemiological analysis of the incidence of osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures among the Saudi Arabian population. Ann Saudi Med. 2012;32(6):637-41.
  3. Alquaiz AM, Kazi A, Tayel S, Shaikh SA, Al-Sharif A, Othman S, et al.Prevalence and factors associated with low bone mineral density in Saudi women: a community based survey. BMC musculoskeletal disorders. 2014;15:5.
  4. The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). Http://www.iofbonehealth.org/facts-statistics#category-28.
  5. Al-Zu'bi A, Almuhtaseb N, Amayreh I.Osteoporosis awareness in a sample of teenage girls in Jordan. Jordan Medical Journal. 2010;44(4):420-26.
  6. Gehlbach SH, Fournier M, Bigelow C.Recognition of osteoporosis by primary care physicians. Am J Public Health. 2002;92(2):271-3.
  7. Morris CA, Cabral D, Cheng H, Katz JN, Finkelstein JS, Avorn J, et al.Patterns of bone mineral density testing: current guidelines, testing rates, and interventions. J Gen Intern Med. 2004;19(7):783-90.
  8. Codori AM, Petersen GM, Miglioretti DL, Boyd P.Health beliefs and endoscopic screening for colorectal cancer: potential for cancer prevention. Preventive medicine. 2001;33(2 Pt 1):128-36.
  9. Weinberg DS, Turner BJ, Wang H, Myers RE, Miller S.A survey of women regarding factors affecting colorectal cancer screening compliance. Preventive medicine. 2004;38(6):669-75.
  10. Wallace LS.Osteoporosis prevention in college women: application of the expanded health belief model. American journal of health behavior. 2002;26(3):163-72.
  11. Sedlak CA, Doheny MO, Jones SL.Osteoporosis education programs: changing knowledge and behaviors. Public Health Nurs. 2000;17(5):398-402.
  12. Bandura A.Health promotion by social cognitive means. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education. 2004;31(2):143-64.
  13. Rosenstock IM, Strecher VJ, Becker MH.Social learning theory and the Health Belief Model. Health education quarterly. 1988;15(2):175-83.
  14. Gourlay M, Richy F, Reginster JY.Strategies for the prevention of hip fracture. The American journal of medicine. 2003;115(4):309-17.
  15. Gallagher TC, Geling O, Comite F.Missed opportunities for prevention of osteoporotic fracture. Archives of internal medicine. 2002;162(4):450-6.
  16. Nelson HD, Helfand M, Woolf SH, Allan JD.Screening for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a review of the evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of internal medicine. 2002;137(6):529-41.
  17. O'Sullivan J, O'Connor OJ, O'Regan K, Clarke B, Burgoyne LN, Ryan MF, et al.An assessment of medical students' awareness of radiation exposures associated with diagnostic imaging investigations. Insights Imaging. 2010;1(2):86-92.
  18. Sani KG, Jafari M, Mohammadi M, Mojiri M, Rahimi A.Iranian physicians’ knowledge about radiation dose, received by patients in diagnostic radiology. Iranian Journal of Radiation Research. 2009;6:207-12.
  19. Http://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html?Type=1&cl=95&ci=5&ps=3%2C976%2C000&x=37&y=6.
  20. 50 SY.Central Department Of Statistics & Information. 2014.
  21. Al-Otaibi HH.Osteoporosis Health Beliefs, Knowledge and Life Habits among Women in Saudi Arabia. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015;5(06):236.
  22. Barzanji AT, Alamri FA, Mohamed AG.Osteoporosis: a study of knowledge, attitude and practice among adults in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Journal of community health. 2013;38(6):1098-105.
  23. Alamri FA, Saeedi MY, Mohamed A, Barzanii A, Aldayel M, Ibrahim AK.Knowledge, attitude, and practice of osteoporosis among Saudis: a community-based study. J Egypt Public Health Assoc. 2015;90(4):171-7.

[Dr. omarhamdi, AL-waleed faydullahal idriss, Heshamzuhairajaj, Shahadahmadbamani and Faisalhammadalatawi. (2017); HEALTH BELIEFS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPOROISIS RADIOLOGICAL SCREENING IN OLDER WOMEN AND MEN IN JEDDAH CITY 2016. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 2816-2829] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

faisal hammad alatawi
medical student

DOI:

Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3076      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3076

Download Full Paper

Download PDF No. of Downloads: 20 | No. of Views: 134