Authors : Z. Rahnavard , M. Vahid Dastgerdi and M. Zolfaghari
Abstract: The lifestyle during adolescence has a significant preventive role to avoid osteoporosis in adulthood. The present investigation has studied the lifestyle of female adolescents in relation with preventing osteoporosis. In the present investigation, being a descriptive-analytical study, 7600 of female adolescents were selected in Tehran city and from high school and pre-university students. The method of selection was random cluster sampling. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire consists 2 parts. The first part includes the demographic characteristics and the second included some information on different aspects of their lifestyle related to osteoporosis prevention including nutrition, physical exercise, habit- such as smoking, dieting, taking weight loss food regimen and weight loss drugs. For analyzing and assessing the gathered data descriptive statistics (absolute and relative frequency tables) and for inferential statistical analyses chi-square (χ2) was utilized. The finding in this study indicated that in terms of nutrition, physical activity and exercise, the highest percentage of cases (51.8 and 57.7%) had undesirable lifestyle. In addition, 50% of cases had undesirable lifestyle. About habits (smoking, using weight loss food regimen and using weight loss drug) the highest percent of cases (74.9%) had desirable lifestyle. In addition, there was a significant statistical relationship between life style and variables of education level (p = 0.004), economical status of family (p = 0.043), the birth number in family (p = 0.001) and educational level of mother (p = 0.005). Considering, the fact that 50% of the understudy adolescents did not have a desirable and proper lifestyle, the officials and decision-makers of the country should think of some innovative ways to settle the existing problems regarding the lifestyle among adolescents in order to prevent osteoporosis in the future.
Z. Rahnavard , M. Vahid Dastgerdi and M. Zolfaghari , 2009. The Relationship Between Female Teenagers` Lifestyle and Osteoporosis Prevention. Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 4: 204-208.