Investigating Life Style Relationship with Affliction to Osteoarthritis in Referent to Tehran’s Medical Universities Hospitals

Subject Areas : Medical &Health

مریم Agha Amiri ¹ , Sh Mohamadzadeh ² , بهار Seifi ³ , حمید Alavimajd ⁴

1 - Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Tehran Shaheid Baheshti Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Iran 

Received: 2010-08-02 Accepted : 2010-12-28 Published : 2010-06-22

Keywords:

Abstract :

Osteoarthritis is one of the most prevalent joint illnesses in old-aged people and often results inability. The illness is a combination of joint destruction and corrosion. Current study was carried out in order to investigate life style relationship with affliction to osteoarthritis. In this case-control study, 220 subjects were selected from referent patients to Tehran’s Medical Universities Hospitals by simple random sampling method and were divided into two 110 subjects of case (experimental) and control groups. Data including demographic information, job history and life style (nutrition patterns and manners, physical activities, smoking and alcohol behaviors) collected via implementing questionnaires and interviews with the patients. Chi-square (K-2) and Mann-Whitney U statistical tests were applied to analyze data. Age Mean in both groups was 60 years and 59.1% of the subjects were women. In case group, 40% had ages between 25 and 29 years and 86.55% of them never used hormones after menopause. 23.63% of the referents in case group, were housewife and 64.5% of them had frequent  stairs climbing, also 63.6% had picked up heavy objects and 65.5% had the manner of sitting in the form of cross-legged. In terms of nutrition and feeding manners, no significant differences were observed in both case and control groups (P<0.005). In terms of physical activities, most of people in case group had heavy physical activities in the past and hadn’t have walking or physical exercises, 30% of the case group had smoking manners (p<0.001). The established research showed that inappropriate life style is so effective in affliction to osteoarthritis in old-aged people that could be prevented some how by life style modification.