A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention

  • Authors:
    • Liang Wang
    • Xiaowen Xu
    • Yan Zhang
    • Hongxia Hao
    • Liying Chen
    • Tianjiao Su
    • Weifeng Ma
    • Yuanyuan Xie
    • Tiantian Wang
    • Fan Yang
    • Li He
    • Wenjiao Wang
    • Xuemei Fu
    • Yuanzheng Ma
  • View Affiliations

  • Published online on: October 19, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2016.3822
  • Pages: 3797-3805
Metrics: Total Views: 0 (Spandidos Publications: | PMC Statistics: )
Total PDF Downloads: 0 (Spandidos Publications: | PMC Statistics: )


Abstract

Osteoporosis, a chronic disease with no therapeutic cure, affects a growing number of people as the aging population in China rapidly increases. Therefore, developing an evidence-based model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention is required. In the present study, an osteoporosis club was established, which is a novel model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention. A unified management of membership was used based on a digitized database. A total of 436 patients with osteoporosis were randomly assigned to the osteoporosis club group or the self-management control group. For the osteoporosis club group, multiple activities of health education were performed, including monthly systematic health education lectures, exercise programs and communication parties once a year. For the control group, the participants took charge of their own musculoskeletal health. All data of the participants were collected and evaluated prior to and following intervention. In the pre‑intervention assessment, no significant difference was identified in the health education between the two groups. Through the four‑year intervention, the osteoporosis knowledge, health beliefs, living behavior, medication compliance, quality of life and bone mineral density of the osteoporosis club group were improved significantly compared with the control group (P<0.001), while the pain degree of the osteoporosis club group was relieved significantly more compared with the control group (P<0.001). The results in the present study suggest that setting up an osteoporosis club is an evidence‑based model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention in China.
View References

Related Articles

Journal Cover

December-2016
Volume 12 Issue 6

Print ISSN: 1792-0981
Online ISSN:1792-1015

Sign up for eToc alerts

Recommend to Library

Copy and paste a formatted citation
x
Spandidos Publications style
Wang L, Xu X, Zhang Y, Hao H, Chen L, Su T, Ma W, Xie Y, Wang T, Yang F, Yang F, et al: A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention. Exp Ther Med 12: 3797-3805, 2016
APA
Wang, L., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Hao, H., Chen, L., Su, T. ... Ma, Y. (2016). A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 12, 3797-3805. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2016.3822
MLA
Wang, L., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Hao, H., Chen, L., Su, T., Ma, W., Xie, Y., Wang, T., Yang, F., He, L., Wang, W., Fu, X., Ma, Y."A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 12.6 (2016): 3797-3805.
Chicago
Wang, L., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Hao, H., Chen, L., Su, T., Ma, W., Xie, Y., Wang, T., Yang, F., He, L., Wang, W., Fu, X., Ma, Y."A model of health education and management for osteoporosis prevention". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 12, no. 6 (2016): 3797-3805. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2016.3822