Women’s Attitudes and Health Beliefs toward Osteoporosis Screening in a Community Pharmacy

Table 5

ANOVA to examine differences in perceptions of health beliefs for women of different age groups.

Variables	𝐹	Significance
Perceptions of susceptibility	0.981	0.378
Perceptions of seriousness	1.947	0.148
Perceptions of benefits	2.684	0.073
Perceptions of barriers	1.145	0.322
Attitude	10.169	0.000
Health motivation	0.558	0.574

In order to test difference of means between age groups, age was classified as 18–30 years (𝑛=41) 31–60 years (𝑛=41), and >60 years (𝑛=27).