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ArticleJournal of patient experience2023

Cultural Knowledge in Context - People Aged 50 Years and Over Make Sense of a First Fracture and Osteoporosis.

Patricia Harasym, Lauren A Beaupre, Angela G Juby, Paul Kivi, Sumit R Majumdar, Heather M Hanson

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 54% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Role of bisphosphonates in osteoporosis caused by adult growth hormone deficiency.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patricia HarasymCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-5270
Lauren A BeaupreDepartment of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Angela G JubyDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 2J2.00 WC Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Paul KiviDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 2J2.00 WC Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Sumit R MajumdarDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 2J2.00 WC Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Heather M HansonCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
University of Alberta · CAAlberta Health Services · CAUniversity of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Catch a Break (CaB) is a secondary fracture prevention program that uses medical understandings of osteoporosis to assess first fractures and determine appropriateness for secondary fracture prevention. In this study, we interviewed CaB program participants to identify the understandings that patients themselves used to make sense of first fractures and the osteoporosis suggestion as cause. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female and male participants of the CaB program in Canada. An interpretive practice approach was used to analyze the data. A random sample of 20 individuals, 12 women, and eight men all aged 50 years and over participated. First fractures were produced as meaningful in the context of osteoporosis only for seniors of very advanced age, and for people of any age with poor nutrition. The trauma events that led to a first fracture were produced as meaningful only if perceived as accidents, and having an active lifestyle was produced as beneficial only for mental health and well-being unrelated to osteoporosis. Cultural knowledge shapes, but does not determine, how individuals make sense of their health and illness experiences. Risk prevention program designers should include patients on the design team and be more aware of the presumptive knowledge used to identify individuals at risk of disease.

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lived experienceosteoporosispatient's sense-makingprimary fractures

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PMID36687165
PMCPMC9850129
OpenAlexW4317041547

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