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Karthika Raju
Rancy Davis P
Sona Jose
Siji. K. Kannan
Sreeparvathy Surendran
Sreya V.D
Treesa Mariya M.B
Uneesha Unnikuttanand Neethu A.J
Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by compromised bone strength predisposing to an increased risk of fracture. Nurse, as the primary care giver must encourage and make the mothers aware about osteoporosis. Hence, the study was undertaken to assessing the knowledge of post menopausal osteoporosis among women at selected rural community, Nadathara, Thrissur. The objectives of the study w ere to assess the knowledge of postmenopausal osteoporosis among women and the association between knowledge scores on postmenopausal osteoporosis among women with their selected demographic variables and to prepare a information booklet regarding postmeno pausal osteoporosis. The design of the study was descriptive survey and was conducted over 50 post menopausal women. The samples were selected by using non probability convenient sampling. The result showed that about 32%of post menopausal women were havin g inadequate knowledge, 68% of post menopausal women were having moderate knowledge and none of them had adequate knowledge on osteoporosis. The study also showed some association between knowledge score of women regarding post menopausal osteoporosis wit h the selected demographic variables such as age, and no association between selected variable such as education, type of family, occupation, family income, religion. Thus the study concluded that, the women are having lack of knowledge regarding post menopausal osteoporosis and if they get enough knowledge regarding the same, the complications of post menopausal osteoporosis can be prevented to an extent.
Keywords: Postmenopausal osteoporosis; Knowledge; women; Information booklet