Risk Assessment of Osteoporosis in People with Intellectual Disabilities Based on the Effect of Personal Health Status and Lifestyle

• Main Authors: YAO, CHUNG-HUI, 姚仲徽
• Other Authors: LIN, JIN-DING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42538482863456608815

碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 103 === Background: Osteoporosis can lead to various parts of the body fracture and thereby affecting the function of physical activities in daily life. It’s more likely to cause disability and even death. Although there are many discussions on osteoporosis risk factors in the past studies, few people attach importance to the correlation between intellectual disability people and osteoporosis. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to confer the demography, personal traits and patterns of daily life of people with intellectual disabilities above 18 years old and analyzing relevant factors between intellectual disabilities and osteoporosis. Methods: The study is by a cross-sectional investigation, according to the Health and Welfare Department of the Ministry of Social and Family Statistics, first through sampling disability organizations in Taiwan and doing self-questionnaire survey, and the main object of this study are all students in the organization over the age of 18. The questionnaire contains five parts: basic information intellectual disabilities, and eating behaviors, habits, physical condition and osteoporosis risk assessment scales and analyzed using SPSS 20.0. Results: Results show that the health condition of ID adults, 43.9% had chronic diseases and 62.7% were under long-term medication. For lifestyle, 23% with poor diet behaviors, 91.1% have regular workout 4.4 times a week. Each workout time is 15-30 minutes (63.0%). With a multiple logistic regression analysis, gender, age and eating behaviors were the main factors of ID people had osteoporosis. Man had lower risk of having osteoporosis (OR=0.327), and the risk of people aged 50 years or above was higher than age 18-29 years (OR=4.247). People with poor eating behaviors also got higher risk than other diet modules. (OR=13.363) Conclusions: The study highlights that gender, age and eating behaviors might cause higher risk of ID people having osteoporosis. Therefore, this study suggests that it is important to develop appropriate strategies for people with ID to prevent osteoporosis and ensure their life quality and personal health.