Grado de conocimiento de la osteoporosis en mujeres posmenopáusicas

In asymptomatic diseases such as osteoporosis, it is especially important for the patients to know about the disease, its treatment and the life guidelines necessary to prevent this method of possible fractures and their consequences. In an observational, prospective, multicenter, comparative and open label 12 month long study to evaluate compliance, as a secondary objective of the study, grade of knowledge of the disease was evaluated to study compliance using the Batalla test, modified for osteoporosis. The results showed that, overall, 49.3% of the patients had acceptable knowledge about the disease, 14.3% somewhat acceptable and 36.5% unacceptable knowledge. Thus, although the grade of knowledge on osteoporosis in postmenopausal Spanish women was accepted, knowledge on osteoporosis is still deficient in more than 50%. Thus, it is necessary to continue to increase knowledge about the disease in this population.