Journal of Nursing & Care

Effectiveness of Menopausal Empowerment Strategies on Awareness Regarding Health-Promoting Lifestyle Modifications among Post-Menopausal Women

Abstract

Pratibha Chandekar, Asha Sreenivasan* and Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil

Background: Menopause is a unique event in women's life which occurs around the age of 50 and is a stage that all women would experience. Life expectancy has risen among women in the world and women spend about one-third of their lives during menopause period. This period of life includes physical as well as psychological difficulties that changes the lifestyle of women in multiple ways. Empowerment during this stage can contribute to improving the perception on importance of self-care.

Objective: The present study aims to observe the effectiveness of menopausal empowerment strategies on awareness regarding health promoting Lifestyle modification among postmenopausal women and the current experiment also focus to find out the association of post-test awareness score with chosen socio demographic variables. In this research the researcher also focusses on to find out the post- menopausal health problems among the ladies following their fertile period.

Methodology: A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test research design was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The researchers done the data collection from 303 postmenopausal women from two different setting. The sample is accomplished with a convenient sampling technique.

Results and Conclusion: The present day observe was in burn up to be able to examine the efficiency of a menopausal empowerment strategies on health promotion lifestyle modification amongst postmenopausal women. The educational kit was effective as denoted by t value of 67.05 in awareness scores at P<0.05.