Comparison of Osteoporosis Beliefs among Younger and Older Men
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Abstract
1446 Osteoporosis is a debilitating bone disease associated with a progressive decrease in bone mass, which increases the susceptibility to fragility fractures. It is often considered as a “women's health” issue affecting only older individuals and health promotions programs addressing bone health seldom focus on men. Recent research, however, suggests that men are vulnerable to osteoporosis. PURPOSE: The present study compared the osteoporosis health beliefs among younger, middle-aged and older men. MEASURES: One hundred and fifty men were involved in a study which used a cross-sectional, prospective cohort study design. Background characteristics were assessed using a series of questions. Information regarding osteoporosis related health beliefs was assessed using the Osteoporosis Health Belief Scale (OHBS; Kim et al., 1991). Specifically, perceived susceptibility to osteoporosis, perceived seriousness of the condition, and health motivation to take preventative actions were assessed. RESULTS: The mean ages of the three age groups young adults, middle-aged adults and older adults were 21, 41 and 67, respectively. Participants were predominately (95%) of Caucasian descent. The susceptibility score of OHBS, which measures the perceived likelihood of developing osteoporosis, was significantly lower in the young adults than in the other two age groups (p < 0.01). The perceived seriousness of osteoporosis, measured by the seriousness score, was similar across all age groups as was health motivation or the extent to which healthy behaviours are valued and practiced. The middle-aged group had the highest total OHBS score at 76 and the young adult group had the lowest at 72. Pairwise comparisons showed a significant difference between the total scores of the young adult and the middle-aged groups (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The results showed that the perceived susceptibility was significantly lower for younger men compared to older adults. The results highlight the need for osteoporosis awareness programs targeting different aspects of belief perceptions. Supported by Eastern Kings Memorial Health Foundation and Acadia University Research Fund
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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