Purpose: To evaluate osteoporosis knowledge and learning needs in healthcare professionals working with patients who have experienced or are at risk of fracture.
Setting: Multisite teaching hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
Sample: Healthcare professionals working in the fracture clinics, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, and nuclear medicine department.
Method: Completion of an Osteoporosis Knowledge Questionnaire and questions about learning needs and preferences.
Results: The major areas of knowledge deficit in this study were with topics related to health promotion and management specific to calcium needs and medications.
Conclusions: The range of scores on the Osteoporosis Knowledge Questionnaire and the low scores on key questions suggest that there are opportunities to increase osteoporosis knowledge across a broad spectrum of healthcare providers.