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Introduction: Osteoporosis is an important health problem and the most common metabolic bone disease, that according data statistic, more than 6000000 Iranian have this disease.
Material and Methods: This research is a descriptive analytical study which has been conducted in order to evaluate application prevention behaviors of osteoporosis in health caregivers and how them educating for women referred to the health care centers of Arak City in 2002.
The research units were composed of 24 health caregivers 110 women referred to these centers that had been selected by convenience.
Results: The results of the research show medium age of caregivers were 33.7 years and in women were 29.3 years. (%58). Caregivers and (%80.9) women had adequate education intake daily and (%80.2) caregivers and (%16.4) women had regular exercise, (%62.5) Caregivers and %63.5) women exposed to the sunlight. Also the results show (%49.1) units research in the day gave discussion of caregivers about osteoporosis. (%79) intake calcium, (%90) exercise, (%85.5) exposing to the sunlight, but (%80.9) women did not discuss about taking hormonal drugs.
Conclusion: The result show significant relation between age, educational level and family history of osteoporosis in health caregivers with before education, but relation between adequate calcium intake in women and education was nonsignificant and relation between doing exercise and education was significant.