Empowering self‐care ability – a follow‐up study of clinical‐based perimenopausal women personal health counselling

An, Chi; Yu, Yen-Yen; Chou, Bee-Chin; Szu, Li-Yun; Tsao, Lee‐Ing

doi:10.1111/jocn.13406

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“…Finally, a health check (weight, height, blood pressure and waist circumference) was conducted and the results were discussed. Counseling of women, including individualized educational strategies, was found to be effective in improving healthy behaviors of perimenopausal women [ 36 ]. Counseling has further been advocated as an effective strategy to reduce vasomotor symptoms, as an alternative for or addition to hormone replacement therapy [ 37 ].…”

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“…These training sessions were aimed at helping the participant to understand the health benefits of physical activity, and to encourage them to find meaningful ways of being active in their daily lives. Offering physical training sessions as part of the WLP is based on the findings that physical inactivity is associated with lower physical and mental health during and after menopause [ 36 , 37 , 38 ] Hence, the WLP was a tailor-made intervention adapted to the specific needs of the participants.…”

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“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

Verburgh

Verdonk

Appelman

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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During menopause and midlife, female workers, particularly those in low-paid jobs, experience more occupational health problems than other groups of workers. Workplace interventions are often lacking, however. In the Netherlands, a workplace health promotion intervention—the work–life program (WLP)—has been developed to support female workers. Here, we tailored the WLP to the needs of female workers in low-paid jobs working at Amsterdam University Medical Center. In an exploratory mixed-methods study with a convergent design, among 56 participants, we used questionnaires before and after the intervention and semi-structured, in-depth interviews to address the following research question: What is the impact of the WLP on the women’s health and work functioning? Our quantitative data showed that menopausal symptoms improved significantly after the WLP. Our qualitative data, derived from 12 participants, showed that the WLP initiated a process of mental empowerment that initiated positive changes in four domains: behavior, physical health, mental wellbeing, and in the workplace. Taken with caution, our findings suggest that the WLP mentally empowers female workers to make choices that enhance their health and wellbeing, both at work and in their private lives, as summarized in the quote of one participant: “I get that spirit in me!”.

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“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

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Verdonk

Appelman

et al. 2020

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Unraveling the core and bridge menopausal symptoms of perimenopausal women: a network analysis

Zhang,

Wan,

Geng

2024

Menopause

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Objective Perimenopause is the period from the early menopausal transition to 12 months after the final menstrual period. The clustering of menopausal symptoms poses a challenge for perimenopausal management. Core symptoms are targets for interventions that can alleviate other related symptoms. Bridge symptoms are connectors that link related symptom clusters and can improve the effectiveness of interventions. This study aims to construct a network structure of menopausal symptoms and to identify core and bridge symptoms as a reference for future management. Methods Two hundred forty-two Chinese perimenopausal women were included in the survey. The structure and associations of the menopausal symptoms assessed by the Greene Climacteric Scale were analyzed using a network analysis. We generated the network structure graph using R software and checked its accuracy and stability. Results In the menopausal transition, the most prevalent symptoms were feeling tired or lacking in energy, excitability, and irritability. Sexual dysfunction was common among early postmenopausal women. Irritability (S = 7.16, C = 0.0167, B = 8) was a core symptom of the network. The depressive symptom cluster was a core symptom cluster, most of which have high centrality indices. Excitability (B = 6) was a bridge symptom connecting the anxiety and depressive symptom clusters. Conclusions Our study has highlighted the crucial significance of irritability and excitability in perimenopausal management. Overcoming the challenges of perimenopausal management requires the public to ameliorate the prejudice and stigma associated with emotional symptoms.

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Effect of health promoting lifestyle education on health promoting behaviors of postmenopausal women: A clinical trial study

Mousavi

Soleimani

Bahrami

et al. 2021

Koomesh

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Introduction: Physiological changes in menopause can affect women's health. Women's lifestyle is one of the most important factors affecting their health at this time. However, women do not have sufficient knowledge of healthpromoting behaviors and do not receive the necessary training in this area. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of health promoting lifestyle training on health promoting behaviors in postmenopausal women.Materials and Methods: The present study was a randomized controlled clinical trial. 84 women referred to health centers of Qazvin (Iran) were selected by convenience sampling and were randomly divided into two groups of 42 intervention and control groups. Data collection tools included demographic questionnaire and HPLP II questionnaire. Both groups before intervention completed questionnaires. Intervention consisted of 4 sessions of lecture-based group training with presentation of slides, booklets, pamphlets and six areas of health promoting lifestyle questionnaire. The Health Promoting Lifestyle Questionnaire was evaluated in two groups one month, two months and three months after the intervention.Results: There was no significant difference between the intervention and control groups regarding the distribution of individual variables. According to the results of the three follow-up periods, it was found that the difference between the groups was significant in terms of changes in mean life style. Mean score of health promoting lifestyle in the experimental group (2.72 ± 0.37 before intervention), (one month after intervention 3.12 ± 0.45), (two months after intervention 3.43 ± 0.068), (3 months after intervention 3.45± 0.7). This result indicated the positive impact of the intervention mentioned. Mean score of health promoting lifestyle in control group (2.7 ± 0.43 before intervention), (one month after intervention 2.9 ± 0.46), (two months after intervention 2.76 ±.069), (three months after the intervention was 2.75 ± 0.71). This indicates that mean life style scores increased significantly in the experimental group during the measurement times but remained unchanged in the control group (P<0.05). This demonstrates the long-term effects of a significant increase in the health-promoting lifestyle over time. Remarkably, the highest increase was in physical activity and the least in health responsibility. Conclusion:The findings of this study showed that health promoting lifestyle-training intervention is effective on health promotion behaviors of postmenopausal women. Therefore, this intervention is recommended as a simple, practical and low cost educational method for postmenopausal women.

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Empowering self‐care ability – a follow‐up study of clinical‐based perimenopausal women personal health counselling

Abstract: It is crucial to set up personal health counselling for perimenopausal women in clinics and develop information technology systems to support menopausal women in the technological era.

Cited by 3 publications

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“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

Unraveling the core and bridge menopausal symptoms of perimenopausal women: a network analysis

Effect of health promoting lifestyle education on health promoting behaviors of postmenopausal women: A clinical trial study

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