Investigation of the cognition and self management about osteoporosis and quality of life in elderly osteoporosis patients / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the cognition, self-management and quality of life of osteoporosis in elderly patients, and to provide the basic theory for health education in elderly patients with osteoporosis.Methods 565 elderly patients with osteoporosis in our hospital from May 2012 to Mar.2015 were enrolled.The cognition, health beliefs, self-efficacy and quality of life were investigated by questionnaires and analyzed by Microsoft Office Excel 2007.Results 565 osteoporosis patients, the symptom score was (15.6±2.0), and the score was lower in sporting knowledge (4.3 ± 1.8) than in calcium knowledge (5.7 ± 1.5) (t=2.784, P=0.011).Health beliefs score was (139.0±9.6), containing exercise benefits score of (21.5±3.1), exercise barriers score of (13.8±3.9), susceptible score of (19.4±4.2), serious score of (18.8±4.4), health motivation score of (25.0±3.0), calcium intake benefits score of (20.7±3.5) and calcium intake disorder score of (19.8 ± 4.0).Self efficacy score was (63.7 ± 19.4), containing exercise efficacy score of (58.6 ±18.7) and calcium efficacy score of (69.2± 18.5).Quality of life score included the general health (16.5± 2.9 score), social function (5.8 ± 1.3 score), vitality (14.8 ± 3.2 score), mental health (20.7± 4.2 score), physiological function (20.5 ± 4.1 score), physiological role limit (6.3 ± 1.6 score), emotional role limit (5.1 ± 1.3 score) and body pains (4.3 ± 1.8 score).Conclusions The score in cognitive function is low in elderly osteoporosis patients.It's useful to improve elderly osteoporosis awareness and quality of life by carrying out relative education.