Health-related quality of life among menopausal women

Ganapathy, Thilagavathy; Furaikh, Samia Saud Al

doi:10.4103/amhs.amhs_122_17

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“…These vasomotor symptoms may result in emotional outburst, poor work concentration, and sleep disorders. 12 In the present study, 66.3% of study population had symptoms of hot flushes which is congruent with the other studies done in rural India. 6,7,13 The prevalence of sleep problem and irritability in was 78.89% in our study which is comparable with the other studies.…”

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Assessment of Menopausal Symptom Using Modified Menopause Rating Scale among Rural Women of Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, a Central India Region

Armo¹,

Sainik²

2020

Journal of South Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Background: Menopause is a natural process that results in atresia of almost all oocytes in ovaries, causing an increase in follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone levels and a decrease in estrogen levels. Menopausal symptoms impact physical, psychological, vasomotor, and sexual health-related quality of life among women. Aim and objective: The study was planned with the aim to assess the commonly reported menopausal symptoms among rural women of Central India, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, using the menopause rating scale (MRS). Materials and methods: An observational cross-sectional study was carried out in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Medical College Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, for a period of 6 months. In all, 199 patients who had attained menopause were analyzed. Menopausal symptoms were assessed using modified MRS). Quantitative data were presented as frequencies and percentages by using SPSS version 21. Results: Two hundred Questionnaires were distributed among the females who attended gynecology OPD and IPD and 199 gave consent to participate in the study; the response rate was 99.5%. The mean age at menopause was 45.35 ± 4.42 years. In all, 100% of women reported having experience of more than five menopausal symptoms. The prevalence of symptoms in urogenital-sexual was 76.88%, somatic 75.62%, and psychological 73.33%. Conclusion: Menopause-related symptoms are highly prevalent among middle-aged women in rural areas of Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh; this signifies the urgent need for community-based screening for such condition. Physical symptoms (joint and muscle problems) are the most commonly reported one. Healthcare providers have to be sensitized to special health needs of these rural middle-aged menopausal women.

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Assessment of Menopausal Symptom Using Modified Menopause Rating Scale among Rural Women of Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, a Central India Region

Armo¹,

Sainik²

2020

Journal of South Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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“…The findings regarding mean age is in the agreement with study done by Patel et al found that the mean age of women was 47.9±4.3 years but contradicts to the study done by Ganapathy et al who found the mean age to be 52.6±4.24 years in his study. 7,8 Majority of the subjects i.e. 85.2% in the present study were married.…”

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A cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms among middle aged female teachers in schools of Raipur city

Gaikwad

Gupta

Sharma

et al. 2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Middle age is a bridge between adulthood and old age, which requires special attention. During middle age physical changes like menopause, aging along with psychological and social changes occur which may affect over all well-being and positive mental health status. So, the present study has been planned to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms among middle aged working females.Methods: The present study was cross-sectional study carried out in 40 schools of Raipur city from 2017 to 2019. By using systematic random sampling method 40 schools were selected and from each school, all the female teachers aged 40-59 years were included in the study. MENQOL questionnaire was used to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms.Results: In the present study, mean age of the subjects was 48.99±5.65 years. 48.6% were postmenopausal. 97.68% of subjects had varying grade of MENQOL symptoms. 96.76%, 87.50%, 68% and 51.85% were experiencing physical, psychosocial, vasomotor and sexual symptoms respectively.Conclusions: It was found that majority of the female's quality of life were found to be affected with different grades of menopausal symptoms. With increasing age symptoms also increases and significantly high among postmenopausal women.

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“…The average percentage of each domain calculates according to MENQOL is 60.43%, 39.42%, 74.56 %, 26.43% vasomotor, psychological, physical and sexual respectively. 17 Sumathi Senthilvel et.al (Dec 2018) conducted descriptive type of study to study menopausal related symptoms and their impact on quality of life in tertiary care hospital in Kochi, India with sample size 150 the average percentage of each domain according to scoring of MEQOL are 66.8% ,66.92 %, 68.92 % 75.56% vasomotor, psychological, physical and sexual respectively. 18 Rajagopal et.al (April 2019) conducted cross-sectional study in Tamilnadu, India to evaluate quality of life in postmenopausal women using MENQOL scale with sample size of 150 this study concluded that the proper education is necessary to improve quality of life in post -menopausal women the average score percentage of MENQOL scale considering each domain is 81%, 61.51%, 62.49%, 41.5% vasomotor, psychological, physical and sexual respectively.…”

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Measurement of Quality of Life in Post Menopausal Women in India -a Systamatic Review

Rajhansa¹,

Kumar²

2020

IJAR

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Background: Quality of life has important impact on the life. Women go through some of the transition in their non reproductive years of life to assess the quality of life and factors having impact on them are scored according to MENQOL in Indian women population. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted by selecting the articles for review from Goggle scholar using the keywords assessment, menopause, quality of life, post menopause, India, MENQOL. The time frame of the search was from 2010 to 2020 to focus on instrument MEQOL which is used to measure quality of life. After each database was searched by inclusion, reference of relative database was searched for further use of MENQOL scale and paper reporting. An Internet search was also conducted to retrieve literature not available through usual databases. It was accomplished by combining psychometric terms (i.e., reliability, validity). Using the keywords articles were found on the internet Result: The average percentage of each domain of all the 12 studied articles of MENOL scale is-40.96%, 37.4%, 56.39%, 43.33% that is vasomotor, psychological, physical and sexual respectively Conclusion: The study concluded that after comparing 12 studies and their scoring of MENQOL in Indian population physical domain is more affected than vasomotor, psychological or sexual.

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Health-related quality of life among menopausal women

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Assessment of Menopausal Symptom Using Modified Menopause Rating Scale among Rural Women of Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, a Central India Region

Assessment of Menopausal Symptom Using Modified Menopause Rating Scale among Rural Women of Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, a Central India Region

A cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms among middle aged female teachers in schools of Raipur city

Measurement of Quality of Life in Post Menopausal Women in India -a Systamatic Review

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