民眾對骨質疏鬆症之認知研究

醫療科技的快速發展，人類的壽命也比從前大幅延長，罹患骨質疏鬆症者卻隨之增加。以台灣地區而言，65 歲以上人口中，每九人就有一人罹患骨質疏鬆症，而婦女占其三分之二。嚴重的骨質疏鬆症患者稍一碰撞或跌倒就容易骨折，一旦發生便會嚴重影響老年後的生活品質，甚至造成生命的終結。但是國民健康局在國內的調查卻發現僅有少數（8.5%）的民眾知道停經後荷爾蒙缺乏是造成女性骨質疏鬆症的主因；絕大多數（51.8%）認為骨質疏鬆症只是因為鈣質缺乏所形成。然而，導致骨質疏鬆症的因素不下數種，民眾所知僅佔部分。因此，本研究欲深入研究民眾對骨質疏鬆症的認知觀點，以了解何為影響民眾認知的最大關鍵，並針對這些點擬定對策，以培養民眾對骨質疏鬆症的正確認知，進而達到預防骨質疏鬆症的目的。本研究針對骨質疏鬆症的訪查結果顯示： 1、認知方面，受訪者對骨質疏鬆症大多數皆有正確的認知，但對於亞洲人罹患骨質疏鬆症的機率較高、骨質疏鬆可能來自於遺傳這兩道題目，大多數受訪者卻偏向錯誤的答案。 2、行為方面，研究顯示受訪者在行為方面並無法達到正確預防骨質疏鬆症的功用。 3、受訪者認知和行為表現無正向關係。

關鍵字

骨質疏鬆；基本認知；行為認知；交叉比對；藥事照護

並列摘要

The rapid development of medical technology has greatly extended the life expectancy of human beings, which has also increased the number of people who suffer from osteoporosis. In Taiwan, there is one out of nine people commit osteoporosis among people over 65 years old, and women take two third of them. However, according to the investigation of the Bureau of National Health Insurance, there is only few people (8.5% of the population) knew that the major cause of osteoporosis was due to the lack of hormone upon menopause, most people (51%) thought that short of calcium has caused osteoporosis. Nevertheless, the factors that lead to osteoporosis are varied; and the most people’s knowledge about it is poor. Therefore, this study intends to do in- depth research on people’s recognition and viewpoint about osteoporosis so as to find out what is the key points to influence their recognition and to find a solution to the problem to correct their misunderstanding in this regard, at last, to prevent people suffering from osteoporosis. 1、 On the recognition aspect, most subjects have correct recognition on osteoporosis. However, most of them got wrong answer on the two questions, which are: Asian has higher chance to commit osteoporosis and osteoporosis is possibly come from inheritance, which showed the subjects have little knowledge on personal factors. 2、 On action aspect, the study indicated the subjects did not meet the required level to prevent osteoporosis correctly. 3、 There was no positive relationship between recognition to actual action.