Knowledge about risk factors and preventive measurements for osteoporosis from working women in pre-menopause
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Keywords
Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal Prevention and control, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Risk Factors
Abstract
Introduction: Osteoporosis as a public health problem is a chronic, and degenerative, but detectable illness. In the United States it affects to 25 millions of people, from which 40% are women.
Objective: To identify the knowledge about risk factors and preventable measurements from women who are just getting
started to lose bone mass in a faster rhythm than the normal.
Methodology: Descriptive study done in 113 women in pre-menopause between 45 and 54 years old, working in a health institution in Tampico, Tamaulipas; to whom a survey was applied to measure their knowledge about the disease, risk factors, and preventable measurements for osteoporosis.
Results: It was found that the studied population showed a high level of knowledge about the disease, risk factors, and preventable measurements for osteoporosis. University degree and labor position of professional nurse, bachelor nurse, specialist nurse, and nurse assistant, were factors associated to the level of knowledge.
Conclusions: To study relationships between the presence of some risk factors from women in premenopause with a high level of knowledge about osteoporosis.
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