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Conditions
Brief summary
Osteoporosis is a global health problem along with heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer which not only causes increase economic burden, it also leads to social, physical and psychological consequences. It is considered as woman’s chronic health problem which is characterized by decreased bone mass density, micro architectural deterioration of bone tissue and fragility fractures, particularly to the hip, spine, wrist and shoulder. The United States Department of Health and Human Services estimated that osteoporosis affect more than 75 million people worldwide which projects that the disease will impact more than 10 million women by 2020 if efforts to prevent it are ineffective. It is a silent undiagnosed disease until a fracture occurs due to an accidental fall. Worldwide osteoporosis causes more than 8.9 million fractures annually, resulting in an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds. Although it can affect either gender, 80% of those affected are women. Worldwide, 1 in 3 women over age 50 will experience osteoporotic fractures, as will 1 in 5 men aged over 50. So, the objective of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate effectiveness of an educational intervention program on prevention of Osteoporosis based Health Belief Model among the female staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Single blinded, randomised controlled trial will be conducted among female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia. After cluster sampling, total 240 samples will be allocated in intervention and control group. Intervention group will expose to educational module and follow up for three months to measure the outcomes. The intervention group will give prevention of osteoporosis knowledge based on Health Belief Model and the control group will in wait list. The health promotion intervention program is expected to produce a significant difference in osteoporosis knowledge score, osteoporosis self-efficacy scale and osteoporosis health belief scale among female staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia between the intervention group and the control group. The data will analyse by computer software SPSS version 22 and the descriptive statistics, paired t test, repeated measure ANOVA, chi square, general linear model and MANOVA will do to measures the outcome. Results from this study about knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in UPM will help to identify areas that need focus and enforcement.
Interventions
*The study will be conducted among the female staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang. According to university website (www.upm.edu.my; 2015) total female staff is about more than one thousand. Only academic female staff of this university will be included in this study.
* Respondents who meet the inclusion criteria will be taken as respondent by multi stage random sampling.
*There are sixteen different faculties in Universiti Putra Malaysia; eight different faculties will be allocated for
*The study will be conducted among the female staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang. According to university website (www.upm.edu.my; 2015) total female staff is about more than one thousand. Only academic female staff of this university will be included in this study. * Respondents who meet the inclusion criteria will be taken as respondent by multi stage random sampling. *There are sixteen different faculties in Universiti Putra Malaysia; eight different faculties will be allocated for each intervention and control group to achieve the sample size. *Respondents for both intervention and control group will be single blinded to reduce bias. The respondent will not be informed whether they are categorized under intervention or control group. Only the researcher is able to differentiate which groups are under intervention or control group. * The intervention group will receives information’s about osteoporosis by education material and control group will not receive any information’s related to osteoporosis. After the completion of the trial the control group will receive the educational material through email. *Researcher herself will distribute the booklet (educational material) which will includes the information on development, risk, consequences and prevention strategies of osteoporosis among the intervention group. *Educational material (booklet) develop under “Health Belief Model” will be prepared by principal investigator specifically highlight the study objectives by comprehensive literature review from previous studies. *All participants will answer a set of validated and pretested questionnaire at baseline, immediately and three months after intervention. *To reduce the noncompliance in the study the researcher will send weekly mobile text to the intervention group for gentle reminder. *Text messages will be delivered once in a week for three months in only in intervention group. *The text message will contain the key messages from each six parts of “Health Belief Model” (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, self-efficacy)which will be summarize from the intervention module. *The certificate of the participation will be given upon completion of the study.
Sponsors
Samia Amin
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
25 Years to 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
i. Female academic participants are working as a full time staff in UPM. ii. Female academic participants age in between 25-55 years. iii. Female academic participants with English language iv. Female academic participants will give written consent. v. Female academic participants will not going for leave in coming three months. vi. Female academic participants are using smart mobile phone with internet subscription.
Exclusion criteria
i. Female academic participants diagnosed as osteoporosis. ii. Female academic participants come for short time training iii. Pregnant Female academic participants iv. Female academic participants has chronic disease with medication (e.g. Hypertension/Diabetics) v. Active female academic participant in another study. vi. Female academic doctor and nurse staff
Outcome results
None listed