Health seeking behaviour among post-menopausal women: a knowledge, attitude and practices study

Khan, Sana Irfan; Shukla, Mahesh; Priya, N.; Ansari, M. Athar

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20162041

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“…11 The study findings were muscle and joint pain 95% (p<0.0001), parts of the body feeling numb or tingling 93.3% (p<0.0001), difficulty in sleeping 86.5% (p<0.0001), irritability 85.8% (p<0.0001) and these rates were significantly higher than those reported in the current study, but the prevalence of muscle and joint pain (p<0.14) were similar to the study findings vasomotor symptoms like hot flushes 46.7% (p<0.0013) and night sweats 50% (p<0.032) reported from the study based. 12,13 The study findings concur with Global and Asian study findings regarding more prevailing symptoms as physical than vasomotor symptoms Kulkarni et al women in late menopause, who had induced menopause and premature menopause was affected by severe symptoms. There was a significant positive correlation between postmenopausal symptoms and age.…”

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Prevalence of gynecological diseases in postmenopausal women in tertiary care hospital in Chengalpattu district

Shwetha¹,

Minnalkodi²,

Prasad³

2020

Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol

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Background: Menopause is a biological event characterized by the complexity of factors. On an average one-third of the women’s life consists of the post-menopause years, and health care programs for women do not address concerns beyond reproductive ages. The aim of this study was to describe the magnitude of menopause-related symptoms, the pattern of health care seeking, and associated factors. To assess the prevalence of gynecological disease in post-menopausal women.Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in Karpaga Vinayaga Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center - obstetrics and gynecology OPD. Over a period, months in the year 2019. Stages of reproductive aging workshop (STRAW) revised criteria and nomenclature are used for the ascertainment of menopause and inclusion of the women in the study. It provided a comprehensive basis for staging since there were more complexities on ascertainment of menopause explained. The STRAW criteria are considered as the gold standard for assessing menopausal stages.Results: A total of 600 participants were included in the study. The proportion of women who had at least one menopause-related symptom was 95.95 (95% CI 93.73-97.54) and 58.3% of women had severe symptoms. Severities of symptoms in psychological, physical, vasomotor, and sexual domains were 56.7%, 70.5%, 49.3%, and 10.2% respectively. Premature menopause (p<0.016), induced nature of menopause (p<0.031), dyslipidemia (p<0.006) and other medical condition (p<0.003) were associated with severity of menopausal related symptoms.Conclusions: A high proportion of women are affected by menopause-related symptoms. Care seeking for all symptoms is not uniform, indicative of a lack of knowledge about the treatable nature of many of these symptoms. Sensitization of both women and the health care system may serve to address this issue of menopause-related symptoms and the possibility of treatment for these.

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Prevalence of gynecological diseases in postmenopausal women in tertiary care hospital in Chengalpattu district

Shwetha¹,

Minnalkodi²,

Prasad³

2020

Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol

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“…Similarly, Khan et al suggested that to deal with menopausal problems, majority of the women in urban areas said that a doctor should be consulted (52.7%) whereas majority in rural areas either said that they did not know what could be done (47.9%) or traditional or home-based measures should be resorted to (40.0%). 17 43.4% of the rural women had never visited any health facility for menopausal problems as compared to 26.4% in urban areas. Those women who never visited any preferred health facility, a majority gave reasons such that it was far away, that they did not trust the facility, there was no one to accompany them or they preferred resorting to home-based remedies for their ailments.…”

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Treatment seeking behavior among post-menopausal females attending out-patient clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a tertiary care centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Singh¹,

Chouhan²,

Patel

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Onset of menopause causes a variety of somatic, sexual, vasomotor and psychological manifestations which can deteriorate the quality of life of women. According to sample registration system (SRS) 2014, the proportion of women aged 45-59 years is 15.3% and thus it is imperative for healthcare providers to focus more attention on the health of postmenopausal women. In India, however this phase of life is generally ignored. The objectives of the study were to determine the health seeking behavior of postmenopausal women with respect to the problems faced during menopause and to determine the utilization pattern and barriers to utilization of health care services.Methods: Prospective cross-sectional study for one year period starting from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016. Data collected using Systematic Random Sampling from 255 postmenopausal women and entered into MS excel 2007. Analysis done with Epi-Info 7.2. Chi- square applied as statistical test of significance and p<0.05 considered to be statistically significant.Results: In present study, majority (73.33%) participants did not take any treatment. 10.98% and 6.67% gave history of self medication and use of home remedies, respectively. Statistically significant correlation was found between treatment taken and factors like residing locality, education and socio-economic class. The most common reason for delayed or no treatment seeking was unawareness, followed by financial issues.Conclusions: Majority postmenopausal women faced one or more problems associated with menopause but very few sought treatment. Lack of knowledge and financial constraints were found to be major barriers to utilization of health services.

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“…Most of the postmenopausal women feel that, the medical problems experienced in that phase of life are due to old age. 3 The present study was undertaken to assess the health seeking behaviour among the postmenopausal women.…”

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Health seeking behaviour among post menopausal women in rural and urban field practice areas of Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad: a cross-sectional study

Apoorva

Thomas

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The phase of menopause is a physiological event which occurs as a result of progression of reproductive ageing. Women from developing countries view variations due to menopause as natural process and there is no need for medical care. The objective of the study was to assess the health seeking behaviour among the post menopausal women.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural and urban field practice areas of department of Community Medicine of Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad. About 300 urban and 300 rural women were interviewed using a semi-structured and pretested questionnaire from August 2015 to September 2017.Results: Among the rural women, 100 (25.4%) women did not seek health care and among those who sought health care, majority (34.3%) preferred government healthcare services followed by 23% who consulted private facility. Of the urban women, 14.7% did not seek health care, 42% of the women approached private practitioner followed by 23% who sought health care in government hospital. Majority of the women (42.2%) did not seek health care as they thought they will be normal with time.Conclusions: More than one third of the women are not aware of menopause and related problems. Among those who did not seek health care, higher proportion felt they will be Ok with time followed by financial constraints, fear/shy, family problems and lack of transport.

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Health seeking behaviour among post-menopausal women: a knowledge, attitude and practices study

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Prevalence of gynecological diseases in postmenopausal women in tertiary care hospital in Chengalpattu district

Prevalence of gynecological diseases in postmenopausal women in tertiary care hospital in Chengalpattu district

Treatment seeking behavior among post-menopausal females attending out-patient clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a tertiary care centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Health seeking behaviour among post menopausal women in rural and urban field practice areas of Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad: a cross-sectional study

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