ArticleQualitative health research2011
The invisible disease: making sense of an osteoporosis diagnosis in older age.
Article in Qualitative health research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00463905 (Evaluation of the Impact of a Case-finding Strategy for Vertebral Fractures on Bisphosphonate and Other Drug Prescribing in Primary Care, Using the Cohort for Skeletal Health in Bristol and Avon), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Evaluation of the Impact of a Case-finding Strategy for Vertebral Fractures on Bisphosphonate and Other Drug Prescribing in Primary Care, Using the Cohort for Skeletal Health in Bristol and Avon (COSHIBA)
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Bisphosphonate alternative regimens for the prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures: BLAST-OFF, a mixed-methods study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis.BMJ open · 2020Pooled it
- Knowledge, beliefs, and concerns about bone health from a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative studies.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Metasynthesis of Patient Attitudes Toward Bone Densitometry.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Pooled it
- A qualitative systematic review of patients' experience of osteoporosis using meta-ethnography.Archives of osteoporosis · 2016Pooled it
- Randomized controlled trial of a primary care-based screening program to identify older women with prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fractures: Cohort for Skeletal Health in Bristol and Avon (COSHIBA).Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2012Trial
- Implementing Osteoporosis Screening in Hong Kong: A CFIR-Guided Qualitative Study of Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Development of a program theory for osteoporosis patient education in Denmark: a qualitative study based on realist evaluation.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Impact of postmenopausal osteoporosis on the lives of Omani women and the use of cultural and religious practises to relieve pain: A hermeneutic phenomenological study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Article
- Understanding illness experiences of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: a qualitative analysis within the SOMA.LIV study.BMC gastroenterology · 2023Article
- An interpretive descriptive approach of patients with osteoporosis and integrating osteoporosis management advice into their lifestyle.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022Article
- Cultivating across "pockets of excellence": challenges to sustaining efforts to improve osteoporosis care.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2022Article
- Multidisciplinary expert consensus on secondary fracture prevention in Spain.Archives of osteoporosis · 2021Article
- Consequences of a Diagnostic Label: A Systematic Scoping Review and Thematic Framework.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Apolipoprotein D alleviates glucocorticoid-induced osteogenesis suppression in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells via the PI3K/Akt pathway.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2020Article
- Primary care physicians' views on osteoporosis management: a qualitative study.Archives of osteoporosis · 2019Article
- Osteoporosis prevention: Where are the barriers to improvement in French general practitioners? A qualitative study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Osteoporosis prevention: where are the barriers to improvement in a French general population? A qualitative study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2019Article
- Development of an mHealth Application for Women Newly Diagnosed with Osteoporosis without Preceding Fractures: A Participatory Design Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Women's lived experiences of learning to live with osteoporosis: a longitudinal qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Osteoporosis (low bone density) is a potentially serious disease which mainly affects women older than 50 years. National screening programs for osteoporosis are being developed in the United Kingdom. It is important to assess the psychological experience of receiving a positive diagnosis from a population-based screening program so that psychological distress does not outweigh medical benefits. Little research has been conducted in this field. In our study, we explored the experience of being diagnosed with osteoporosis following screening. We interviewed 10 women aged 68 to 79 who were recruited from a population-based osteoporosis screening trial. Four themes emerged from our interpretative phenomenological analysis of the interviews: osteoporosis is a routine medical condition, lack of physical evidence creates doubt, the mediating role of medical care, and protecting the self from distress. Our findings emphasize the complexity attached to receiving a positive screening result. We suggest considerations for health care providers.
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