Objective To
analysis the
awareness of
community doctors on the
knowledge of
osteoporosis and to provide
suggestions for conducting pertinent
training for
community doctors.
Methods The design of
questionnaire was based on the
Osteoporosis Knowledge Questionnaire (OKT)and the
Guideline of
Diagnosis and
Treatment of
Osteoporosis in 2011.A total of 170
community doctors were investigated.Results The score of
community doctors about
osteoporosis was 29. There was 83.80% of
community doctors
who knew
osteoporosis related
knowledge well.However,there was 15.49% of
community doctors'
knowledge about
osteoporosis that was not good enough.The most of
community doctors got full score in the part of prevention
knowledge with 52.82%.The most of
community doctors failed in the part of
treatment knowledge with 12.68%.The score of
osteoporosis knowledge in different
gender and title had no statistical significance (P >0.05). Conclusion It is necessary to strengthen
community doctors's
awareness about
osteoporosis.