Health Awareness program towards minimize Symptoms of Menopause women

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.