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Abstract Hip osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder among adult age individuals. It is painful and disabling diseases which are characterized by pain, stiffness, loss of joint function, difficulty moving and loss of muscle strength. Increasing the negative effects on hip joint leads to deterioration of the physical function and quality of life in individuals. Aim of study: Was to assess physical functional status among patients with hip osteoarthritis. Design: Descriptive study design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study. Subjects: 100 Adult male and female conscious patients diagnosed with hip osteoarthritis not on rehabilitation program were recruited in this study. Setting: Study was carried out in both orthopedic outpatient clinic, and inpatients ward at Fayoum university hospitals in Fayoum governorate. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection; (1) structured interview questionnaire including demographic and medical data as age, gender, occupation, marital status, current complain, onset and duration of illness, and,...etc. (2) WOMAC index questionnaire including pain, stiffness and physical function. Results: Almost half of patients were mainly male, married (56% and 95 %) respectively with mean age of 50.67±11.14 years. Also, (82%) of study subjects had gradual disease onset with disease duration, more than 1 year with no past history of disease. There was statistical significant correlation between total pain score, stiffness score and total physical function score with (r= 0.416 and 0.364) respectively. Conclusion: It can be concluded that results of the current study showed that high scores of difficulties in different day to day physical function activities affect on the patient life and work performance. Recommendation: The study was realizing that nurses need to increase their awareness and through teaching measures related to risk factors, exercises, diet and treatment that required to enhance patients physical function and should be a part of provided care of patients with hip osteoarthritis to minimizing the effects of osteoarthritis on physical function, and should be a part of the team provided care for patients with hip osteoarthritis. _________________________________________________________________________ |