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A Study to Assess the Quality of Life among Postmenopausal Women in Selected Village

Prof. Y. Shalin Gijo

Abstract


The present study was aimed to assess the Quality of life among post-menopausal women in selected village, Balaramapuram. The objective of the study was to assess the quality of life among post-menopausal women and to find out the association of quality of life among post- menopausal women with their selected demographic variables. The data was collected from thirty samples through snowball sampling technique using Menopause Rating scale. Out of thirty samples taken 60% had mild to moderate symptoms like heart discomfort, sleep problems, sexual problem, bladder symptom, dryness of vagina etc., 30% are asymptomatic and 10 % had severe to very severe symptoms like joint and muscular discomfort, hot flushes, physical and mental exhaustion, depressive mood. There is no significant association between quality of life among post-menopausal women with their selected demographic variables.


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