ASSESSMENT OF AWARENESS REGARDING OSTEOPOROSIS PREVENTION IN A GROUP OF PRE-MENOPAUSE WOMEN
ASSESSMENT OF AWARENESS REGARDING OSTEOPOROSIS PREVENTION IN A GROUP OF PRE-MENOPAUSE WOMEN

Summary/Abstract: Osteoporosis (OP) is nowadays considered one of the most important health care problems due to its frequency and due to medical and socio-economic consequences of its major complications, fragility fractures. The Global burden of OP has not been completely described yet, but the most recent data regarding incidence, morbidity, mortality and costs of these fractures resulted in a considerable increase of interest towards its prevention. Establishing proper prophylactic measures requires an organized social intervention, at several levels, focused on health care providers, but including a complex network of institutions and structures. One of the key points for an early effective intervention refers to improving the knowledge of the potentially exposed persons, so that they could actively be involved in prophylaxis. This paper analyses the degree of awareness regarding risk factors for OP in order to establish proper strategies able to decrease the incidence of this condition and, thus, its complications. Since the incidence of OP is maximal in post-menopause women, the target group was represented by women before 45 years old treated for non-osteoporotic fractures in a Level 1 Trauma Centre. This research showed that the risk factors are unequally known, that the primary health care services only partially fulfill their preventive and educational role and the compliance to medical recommendations is not proper. Therefore, future directions for decreasing the impact of OP can be established, targeting enhanced health education by stakeholders, as well as increased material resources from our society for prevention activities.

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