An assessment of QOL and its determining factors of post menopausal women in a rural area of West Bengal, India: A multivariate analysis

Ray, Sudeshna; Dasgupta, Aparajita

doi:10.4103/2230-8598.107358

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“…15 A study by Ray et al in Kolkata found 77% of the women having poor quality of life. 5 Multivariate analysis revealed that poor QOL was more among those who did not live with their own children, were monetarily dependent on their children, not living under one roof with children and had attained menopause more than 5 years. This was in accordance with the present study, where the relationship between symptoms as per MENQOL domains and monetary autonomy of menopausal women in family showed a significant difference of mean between those who had monetary autonomy in their family and those who did not have any monetary autonomy in the family, with respect to the prevalence of Physical symptoms among them.…”

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“…The duration, severity, and impact of these symptoms vary extremely from person to person, and population to population. 5 Some women have severe symptoms that greatly affect their personal and social functioning quality of life. Vasomotor symptoms are common physical conditions experienced by midlife women in the transition through menopause and early post menopause.…”

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“…A study conducted by Ray et al to assess quality of life of post-menopausal women in a rural area of West Bengal, showed 77% had poor quality of life. 5 During menopausal transition, as done in a communitybased study of rural West Bengal by Karmakar et al there is a lot of fluctuation in the hormone levels, and thus women may experience many symptoms and conditions6. In another study conducted in Puducherry by G.K. Poomalarin 2012 claimed that women spend almost onethird of their lifetime after menopause.…”

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Quality of life among menopausal women in an urban area of Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Adhikari

Biswas²

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Women who lay the foundation of the whole society are most neglected in our society, especially in their mid-life. Physical and psychosocial symptoms among post -menopausal women had a positive relation with the quality of life.Methods: A total of 110 women of an urban area of North Bengal region of West Bengal, India were interviewed with help of schedule to obtain information regarding the personal characteristics and MENQOL tool to assess four domains means on the basis of 29 symptoms.Results: The mean menopausal age was 44.58±3.11 years. The means and standard deviation found in different domains are, vasomotor domain (5.35±2.94), physical domain (27.95±10.25), psychosocial domain (13.81±4.70) and sexual domain (1.99±2.91). In the vasomotor domain, muscles ache, joint ache and low back ache were the common symptoms. In psycho-social domain, 99% of the women suffered from poor memory and 97.2% of them felt depressed or down/blue. In sexual domain, 33.6% were bothered by changes in their sexual desires and avoided intimacy. In physical domain, age category, financial and decision autonomy had significant association. In the sexual domain, age category, literacy status, money and sexuality had a significant difference.Conclusions: Post-menopausal women are vulnerable group for whom appropriate and practical measures should be provided in their post-menopausal age in order to have a contented and pleasant life till they die.

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Quality of life among menopausal women in an urban area of Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Adhikari

Biswas²

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…One of the goals of health service for all the people in 21 st century is to improve quality of life. By WHO definition, quality-of-life is the individual's perception of their status in life according to the culture and value systems the person lives in, considering his goals, expectations, standards and concerns [2].…”

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Quality of life among post - menopausal women in rural Puducherry

Surendar

Durgapriya

Arthi

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Public Health Rev: Int J Public Health Res

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Background: Postmenopausal women are the most vulnerable group affected due to physiological changes. The quality of life during the menopause is assessed by the frequency and severity of menopausal symptoms. Objectives: To assess the menopause symptoms and quality of life among post-menopause women in rural Puducherry and study the sociodemographic factors associated with menopausal symptoms and quality of life. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in rural field practicing area of a medical college. 133 postmenopausal women were selected from 3 villages by Simple random sampling. Socio-demographic details and menopausal symptoms using modified MENQOL questionnaire was elicited. Body mapping was done by the participants. Results: The mean age was 51±2 years. About 32% of them were suffering from any one of the chronic diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension. Joint pain (79.2%) was found to have higher prevalence and reduced sexual desire (2.3%) as lower prevalence. Overall, sixty four study population had no menopausal symptoms followed by 35 with mild, 20 had moderate menopausal symptoms. Significant association was seen between age of menopause and the severity of the menopausal symptoms in vasomotor and psychosocial domains. Positive correlations were seen among the domains. Majority (65%) of the women perceived pain any of the parts in body mapping which affects their day to day life. Conclusion: The Quality of life (QOL) of the postmenopausal women was poor based on the presence of symptoms in many domains.

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“…1 With the increasing life expectancy, a woman spends one third of her life in menopause. 2 Menopause can have psychological, physical, and vasomotor symptoms along with sexual dysfunction. Nearly, 50 to 80% of women complain of menopausal symptoms such as hot flushing, sweating, sleep disturbance tiredness, and depression.…”

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Women post menopause: assessment of quality of life and socio-demographic correlates

Raj¹,

Deshmukh²,

Borkar³

2019

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Menopause can have psychological, physical, and vasomotor symptoms along with sexual dysfunction, Current health care model fail to recognize that these symptoms profoundly affect a woman’s personal and social functioning and ultimately her quality of life. Hence, this study aims to assess the Quality of life of post-menopausal women and finding out socio-demographic factors affecting quality of life.Methods: A cross-sectional study in an urban slum area was undertaken and 105 females between 45-65 years of age were interviewed using menopause-specific quality of life (MENQOL) questionnaire.Results: The mean age of these study participants was 54.13±4.05 (45-62) years. Out of 105 post-menopausal women included in the study, 20% were illiterate, 26.7% had completed education up to Secondary school level. Total MENQOL scores ranged from 62-148 and total mean score was 101.3±23.44.Conclusions: Menopause affected not only physical health of a woman but also affects psychosocial aspect of life and this was well evident from the present study where MENQOL scores were higher indicating poor quality of life after menopause. Ageing, lower education, lower socio-economic status, unemployment and no spouse support were contributing to the poor quality of life.

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An assessment of QOL and its determining factors of post menopausal women in a rural area of West Bengal, India: A multivariate analysis

Cited by 12 publications

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Quality of life among menopausal women in an urban area of Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Quality of life among menopausal women in an urban area of Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Quality of life among post - menopausal women in rural Puducherry

Women post menopause: assessment of quality of life and socio-demographic correlates

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