Health-Related Quality of Life and Participation in Osteoporosis Clinical Trials

Abstract. Although osteoporosis affects millions of elderly women, the quality of their lives is extremely complex and is only recently being appreciated. We recently used a disease-specific Osteoporosis Quality of Life questionnaire (OQLQ) to measure quality of life for 105 elderly osteoporotic women, and reported that by path analysis, spinal fractures, health perception, and several sociodemographic factors accounted for 63% of the variance …