Women over 45 undergoing osteoporosis treatment exhibit generally low self-efficacy, which correlates with poorer health behaviors and self-estimated health status.
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Low self-efficacy predominates in treated postmenopausal osteoporosis; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions to improve health behaviors.
INTRODUCTION: Contemporary people do not follow the civilisation development in every life domain, their lifestyle is not always healthy. Self-efficacy is the factor that plays an important role in undertaking actions towards struggling with the disease. THE AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the general self-efficacy level and health behaviours as well as chosen sociodemographic features in women over the age of 45 years who have undergone osteoporosis treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS: test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney Test and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient were all applied. CONCLUSIONS: The generalized self-efficacy level and the health behaviours are not satisfactory.
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