PubMed · 10810842
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M C Freda. Is that your final answer?. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005721-200005000-00001
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The aim of this study was to assess women's knowledge of hormone therapy. Two hundred and seven women were interviewed by telephone. The median score to 24 questions concerning the benefits, risks and side effects of therapy was 54.2%. Almost three-quarters of women knew that hormone therapy may decrease the risk of osteoporosis, but half were unaware that it should be taken for at least 10 years for maximum protection against bone loss. While many women knew that hormone therapy may increase the risk of breast cancer, 13.5% believed that it would decrease their risk. Many women overestimated the potential reduction in lifetime risk of hip fracture and the potential increase in lifetime risk of breast cancer with hormone therapy. Women may have insufficient knowledge to make informed choices about hormone therapy. This has implications for physicians who wish to ensure that women are able to participate in informed decision-making.
One way to reduce the need and demand for hospital services is via health promotion initiatives. A prenatal instructors' education module preventing the learning of violence as acceptable behaviour by children in their first year of life was developed by a health promoting hospital in partnership with its community. Children learn through observing significant adults in their life. Parents are important influences on the children's behaviour, and good (or bad) patterns are passed on from generation to generation. Some abuse occurs because people (primarily males) lack the skills to resolve conflict and stress in a positive way and resort to abuse. The project's intent is to help expectant parents reduce abusive behaviours. This parental modelling awareness program has the potential to be introduced into different high risk groups, day-care centres and multicultural settings.
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