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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJMABHR</journal-id>
<journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Medical and All Body Health Research</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>IJMABHR</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">2582-8940</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Anfo Publication House</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">482</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.54660/IJMBHR.2026.7.2.186-191</article-id>
<title-group><article-title>Fixed-Effects Panel Time-Series Modeling of Osteoporosis Belief Dynamics and Preventive Behaviors among Women in Iraq</article-title></title-group>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Allela</surname><given-names>Dhafer M Jabur</given-names></name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ameen</surname><given-names>Heba Loqman</given-names></name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>Shahad Jamal Mohammaed</given-names></name></contrib>
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<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date>
<volume>7</volume>
<issue>2</issue>
<fpage>186</fpage>
<lpage>191</lpage>
<permissions><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?utm"><license-p>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</license-p></license></permissions>
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<abstract><p>Background: Osteoporosis is rapidly becoming a serious global issue, especially for women. This is particularly true for women in Iraq, where a lack of health beliefs towards osteoporosis in addition to a low awareness of the disease, leads to an increased burden of disease.
Methods: This study obtained a balanced panel data set of the health beliefs (e.g., perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action, and perceived self-efficacy) and preventive behaviors for osteoporosis for 250 postmenopausal women in Iraq for a period of 12 months. To control for the unobserved individual heterogeneity, a Fixed-Effects (FE) panel time-series model was used. As part of the analysis, a number of diagnostic checks, including the Wooldridge test for autocorrelation, were performed.
Results: The FE model demonstrated that perceived susceptibility (β = 0.34, p &lt; 0.001), perceived severity (β = 0.28, p &lt; 0.001), and self-efficacy (β = 0.45, p &lt; 0.001) significantly enhance preventive behaviors over time, while perceived barriers (β = -0.22, p = 0.015) reduce them.
Conclusion: Long-term changes in health beliefs translate directly to improvements in osteoporosis prevention. Fixed-effects modeling offers an excellent framework for analyzing these trends in behavioral changes in women in Iraq.</p></abstract>
<kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Osteoporosis</kwd><kwd>Health Beliefs</kwd><kwd>Preventive Behaviors</kwd><kwd>Iraqi Women</kwd><kwd>Time Series Analysis</kwd></kwd-group>
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