Study of Urmia University of Medical Sciences female employees practice regarding osteoporosis prevention, 1383

osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disorders, which it is more prevalent among menopausal and older women, this disorder is characterized by reduction of total bone mass and change in bone structure and increasing bone fracture susceptibility.

Nowadays paying attention to increasing life expectancy, women spend abour one third of their life time post ‑ menopausally and considering damageability of this group of the community it is necessary for them to obtain information about the osteoporosis causing factors and doing some interventions for stopping it or slowing down its progress, so being attentive to the importance, of this problem we decided to carry out a study with the aim of appointing Urmia University of Medical Sciences female employees practice regarding osteoporosis prevention.

Method & Materials: The study samples were chosen by purposive sampling method in a descriptive study.

The data gathering tool was a question about demographic characteristics second 20 questions regarding practice of women about preventive programs.

Results: The study finding indicated the mean age of the samples was 38.6 yrs.. most of them (80%) were licentiated, 76.7% were married and 40% had two children.

Among them didn't engage to swimming (53.3%) and morning exercise (56.6%), regular control of bone density (93.3%) and consuming calcium supplements (73.4%).

Regarding the samples practice about prevention from osteoporosis the study findings showed that 37.16% had a weak, 36.32% had a moderate and 26.52% had an acceptable practice respectively.

Discussion: The results of this study indicated that the practice of the samples were inappropriate due to knowledge deficit about the osteoporosis process and it's remedial regimen, so education and informing must tabe in consideration as a main object that can be done by tv, news papers, magazines and other media.