Health Awareness program towards minimize Symptoms of Menopause women

A. Eiz - Elregal, Fatma; A. Abd El Haleem, Sabah; H.Bosilah, Almandouh.

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2019.68583

Health Awareness program towards minimize Symptoms of Menopause women

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Community Health Department, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University

² Fellow of Community Health nursing in Obstetrics and Gynecological hospital. Ain Shams University

³ Obstetrics and Gynecological Department. Faculty of Medicine Fayoum University

10.21608/ejhc.2019.68583

Abstract

Background: Menopause is a normal part of life. Menopausewomen experience a wide
range of menopause symptoms, that effect on lifestyle patterns and physical, psychological, social
and spiritual. Menopausal symptoms will different from woman to other and difficultly to
determine severity of symptoms. Design: Aquasi-experimental study was used utilized for the
conduction of this study at menopause women. Aim of the study: to evaluate the effect of
health Awareness program towards minimize symptoms of menopause women. Setting: study
was conducted at outpatient clinics of the maternity and gynaecological hospital affiliated to Ain
Shams University hospitals. Sample: purposive sample included 60 menopausal women was
used. Tools of data collection were : 1). structured questionnaire which divided into two parts for
assessing the socio demographic characteristics, second part was assessing menopause women‟s
knowledge(pre / post-tests). 2). an observation checklist (pre / post-tests) to evaluate women‟s
reported practice toward menopausal symptoms. Results: the majority of studied menopausal
women were married and half of them housewife In addition there were statistically
significant improvement to minimize menopausal symptoms were in post-tests compared to
pre-test through effect of awareness program(p-value<0.001**) Conclusion Health awareness
program had positive efficient on improving menopausal women„s knowledge and practice
toward menopausal symptoms. Recommendations: Increase women awareness about per
menopausal period so reduce the severity of menopausal symptoms. Also further research
addressing women's health needs is also essential for improving the quality of life of menopausal
women.

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