Presentation of menopausal symptoms: A village based community study

Abstract

Background: The present observational, cross sectional study was carried out in rural women (n=117) from the Varanasi area with natural menopause to evaluate menopausal symptoms in women above the age of 40, as well as to evaluate the correlation of age on these symptoms. Materials and Methods: A crossectional assessment by interviewing regarding the menopausal complaints in the following 40-44(n=27), 45- 50(n=30) and above 50 (n =60) years age groups. Menstrual rating scale (MRS) was administered to all the women forming the sample. Results: Mean age at menopause was 47.35 years. Mean number of menopausal symptoms in three age groups were as (mean±SD)10.53±7.33, 7.70± 6.76 and14.50±10.77 respectively, which varied significantly (F=4.86, df=2, 87, P=0.009). The study reveal, varying nature of symptoms with age and MDSM (Mean Duration since Menopause), with vasomotor symptoms being more prevalent with lesser MDSM and psychological and rheumatic complaints more prevalent with increasing age and MDSM in this region. Conclusion: Such regional studies will help to corroborate data so that health care providers can plan strategies for the middle aged women suffering from these menopausal symptoms. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i1.8431 Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.6(1) 2015 87-90

An Overview of Menopausal Symptoms at District Hospital of Nepal.

“…The most common symptoms were as follows-back ache, fatigue/tiredness, numbness and tingling of extremities, mental exhaustion, depressive mood, bladder problem and sexual symptoms. The findings were quite similar with some studies done in Nepal and India, Madhukumar et al, 3 Srivastava et al, 4 Marahatta et al, 10 Christian et.al 13 and Sharma et al 16 The study shows that women in rural community suffer from multiple symptoms related to physiological hormonal changes associated with menopause and women attribute it to be symptoms of aging.…”

“…In India the mean age of menopause has been reported to ranged from 40.32 to 48.84 years as shown in different studies. 4,[12][13][14][15][16][17] Majority of women were married (92.6%) and belonged to indigenous community in the ethnic category of Gurung and Magar (40.5%). Study showed literate participants to be 44.5% and almost 63% of women were living active life style.…”

“…The various published studies shows considerable variation regarding age of onset of natural menopause and physical/somatic, psychological and genitourinary symptoms presented by postmenopausal women. [3][4][5] The reproductive life in female can be divided into three major phases-menarche, childbirth and menopause. Out of these three phases, menarche and child birth are the most studied in medical literatures as compared to menopause.…”