Nguyen Vu H, Wang Ze
Public Health Program, Department of Health Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
J Osteoporos. 2012;2012:383412. doi: 10.1155/2012/383412. Epub 2012 Nov 19.
For healthcare professionals who treat individuals with osteoporosis, it is vital that they receive adequate education on osteoporosis to ensure sufficient knowledge of osteoporosis to properly treat individuals with the disease. To test for adequate osteoporosis education, a study was conducted to measure osteoporosis knowledge in 206 students in relevant healthcare academic programs, such as nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and dietetics. The study showed that differences existed in osteoporosis knowledge in general between the programs and between different years of students in the same programs. There were also discrepancies in specific areas of osteoporosis knowledge between the classes of students, and the average scores of correctly answered items were only as high as 24.40 (76.3%) out of 32 items on osteoporosis knowledge. This study shows that students have osteoporosis knowledge and that it is not completely inadequate; however, osteoporosis knowledge could still be more sufficient, and results demonstrate the need to increase osteoporosis education in the curriculum for these healthcare academic programs to increase osteoporosis knowledge and better prepare graduates and professionals to treat individuals with the disease.
对于治疗骨质疏松症患者的医护人员来说，至关重要的是他们要接受关于骨质疏松症的充分教育，以确保具备足够的骨质疏松症知识来妥善治疗该疾病患者。为了测试骨质疏松症教育是否充分，开展了一项研究，以测量206名相关医护专业课程（如护理、药学、物理治疗和营养学）学生的骨质疏松症知识。研究表明，不同课程之间以及同一课程不同年级的学生之间，在骨质疏松症知识方面总体上存在差异。不同班级的学生在骨质疏松症知识的特定领域也存在差异，在32项骨质疏松症知识题目中，正确回答题目的平均得分仅为24.40分（76.3%）。这项研究表明，学生具备骨质疏松症知识，并非完全不足；然而，骨质疏松症知识仍可更加充分，研究结果表明有必要在这些医护专业课程的课程设置中增加骨质疏松症教育，以增加骨质疏松症知识，更好地使毕业生和专业人员为治疗该疾病患者做好准备。
