• Prasuna N
• Sai Sujatha D
• Madhusudana Pulaganti

Health is a blessing physically and mentally a healthy person can be more productive and enjoy all aspects of life healthy persons are assert to their family, organizations where they work and to society in order to promote health body needs to function optimally for this the musculoskeletal system plays an important role as certain disease like coronary diseases and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases) are more in men same way certain disease are more prevalent among women one of the such disease is osteoporosis which can be prevented by bringing awareness on prevention of osteoporosis. As osteoporosis is a common musculoskeletal disorder referred as silent disease that often remains asymptomatic until bone fracture occurs which makes increase in mortality and morbidity which makes family in crisis due to medical, economical, and social consequences. In Indian scenario women are roots of the family they usually care takers of the family when care taker is bed ridden entire family existence will be altered intern results in reduced functional independence and quality of the life which makes osteoporosis as a public concern. so researcher felt lack of knowledge and belief towards prevention of osteoporosis was major factor for increasing more incidents of osteoporosis.this study assess the beliefs on osteoporosis Prevention among working and non working premenopausal women. A total 250 working 250 non working premenopausal women were assed with osteoporosis health belief scale it is a 42 item questionnaire consisting of seven sub-scales focusing on health beliefs viz., perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits of exercise, perceived benefits of calcium intake, perceived barriers to exercise, perceived barriers to calcium intake and (aspects related to) health motivatio The mean score of OHBs was conspicuously higher among working women (115.58) as against their non-working counterparts (111.71). Moreover, the independent sample t-test results between the work status of the respondents and the mean scores of OHBs were turned out as highly significant (p<0.001). Indicating that the osteoporosis health beliefs were higher among those respondents who were working outside home or in one or the other occupations than those who were non-working (or occupied in homemaking activities). These results suggest that there is difference between working and nonworking women related to osteoporosis beliefs .

Pre-Menopausal, Osteoporosis, working and Non working women

"Osteoporosis Health Beliefs across Work Status: among premenopausal women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.681-689, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902290.pdf

"Osteoporosis Health Beliefs across Work Status: among premenopausal women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp681-689, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902290.pdf