Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017
AWARENESS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS AMONG SAUDI MALE
Abdulelah Ibraheem Alhatlan, Dawood Salman Albujays, Nasser Aljalfan, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Althafar, Qasem Ali Alsaleh, Naushad Abid, Abdulrahman Ahmad Al Naim, Adel Nasser Al Bargi, Sayed Ibrahim Ali, Saud Abdulaziz Al Naaim, Khalid Nabeel Almulhim, Abdulla
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Objectives:To assess the awareness about Osteoporosis among Saudi males Materials and Methods:Cross sectional questionnaire based study . A questionnaire derived from Osteoporosis Knowledge and Assesment tool (OKAT) was distributed among Saudi males admitted or visiting King fahad hospital hofuf , Saudi Arabia . Demographic characteritics and response to questionnaire were collected separately Results:Twenty five individual responded to the questionnaire Mean age of the patient was 32.2 with minimum age of 17 and maximum age of 78 . Majority of the respondent have some education with 36% having secondary and 20% having college level education . Approximately 22% have family history of fracture and 48 % are regularly involved in regular exercise . Majority of the patients have correct response of less than 60% in most of the questions Minimum score on Osteoporosis knowledge and Assesment tool (OKAT) in our series was 0 and maximum score was 12 with a mean score of 5.9 . Cross tab analysis using Chi Square test did not reveal statstiscally significant difference among different age groups, educational status and level of knowledge.:Conclusion:
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Abdulelah Ibraheem Alhatlan, Dawood Salman Albujays, Nasser Aljalfan, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Althafar, Qasem Ali Alsaleh, Naushad Abid, Abdulrahman Ahmad Al Naim, Adel Nasser Al Bargi, Sayed Ibrahim Ali, Saud Abdulaziz Al Naaim, Khalid Nabeel Almulhim, Abdulla, AWARENESS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS AMONG SAUDI MALE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-3 | MARCH‾2017
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Abdulelah Ibraheem Alhatlan, Dawood Salman Albujays, Nasser Aljalfan, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Althafar, Qasem Ali Alsaleh, Naushad Abid, Abdulrahman Ahmad Al Naim, Adel Nasser Al Bargi, Sayed Ibrahim Ali, Saud Abdulaziz Al Naaim, Khalid Nabeel Almulhim, Abdulla, AWARENESS ABOUT OSTEOPOROSIS AMONG SAUDI MALE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-3 | MARCH‾2017
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