“Impact of Yoga on the Reduction of Menopausal Symptoms among Unmarried Women in Religious Societies”

Abstract

Back ground: Menopause is a natural process that happens to every woman as she grows older. Menopause is the end of menstruation i.e. it is a stage when women’s stop having her monthly period. The average age for menopause is 52. But menopause commonly happens anytime between the ages of 42 and 56.Every women experiences cert ain symptoms during menopause. The more beautifully a woman tackles the symptoms the more happy life can be. 5 Aim: The present study aim is to assess the impact of Yoga on reduction of menopausal symptoms. Methodology: Rating scale( r=0.82) was used to assess the menopausal symptoms, the sample consist of 30 unmarried women, pre experimental one group pre test post test design was adopted. Results: The mean post intervention menopausal symptom experience score of (77.27 ) was lesser than the pre intervention menopausal symptom experience score (127.37) which showed that yoga was effective in the reduction of menopausal symptoms among unmarried women. The domain wise mean difference of post test and pre test menopausal sym ptom experience score of unmarried women reveals that there was a significant difference in all the three domains but maximum was in “physiological factors” (30.89%) and the least was for “psychological factors” (20.79%). After the