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Education for Osteoporosis in Persons With Existing Fractures

NCT00575250 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 152

Last updated 2007-12-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We wish to investigate whether a weekly, 2½ hour group-based osteoporosis education intervention (the Osteoporosis Prevention and Self-Management Course), is different to one session course (1x 2½ hours) on osteoporosis knowledge, confidence to eat calcium-containing foods, confidence to exercise, and amount of exercise undertaken after three and nine months of follow-up in people aged over 50 years who have already had a bone fracture.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Osteoporosis Prevention and Self-Management Course

Four weekly education sessions of 2 1/2 hours duration, in a group session facilitated by a community nurse and trained lay leader.

BEHAVIORAL

Introductory education session on osteoporosis

Introductory education session, 1 x 2 1/2 hours in a group session facilitated by a community nurse and trained lay person.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Osteoporosis SA

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Adelaide

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura L Laslett, MMedSci · University of Adelaide

  • Julian D McNeil, PhD FRACP · University of Adelaide

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-01-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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