A CLINICO-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY ON HEALTH PROBLEMS OF POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN IN RURAL AREA OF VADODARA DISTRICT, GUJARAT

Abstract

Background: Health issues of postmenopausal women pose a significant challenge to public health, considering the facts like; there hasn’t been a specific health program for such women in the country and the rising geriatric population.

Objectives: To find out the health problems among rural post-menopausal women and to compare the results with few of the studies in the past with different settings.

Methods: Design: Cross-sectional study, Participants: 147 post-menopausal women residing in Piparia village of Vadodara district were involved in the study, based on sample size calculation and necessary assumptions. Information was filled up in a pre-tested questionnaire.

Results: Most of them suffered from physical symptoms of tiredness (88.4%) and headache (74.8%). This was followed by vasomotor symptoms like hot flushes (40.1%), night sweats (40.8%) and palpitations (37.4%) as well as psychological symptoms like insomnia (57.1%), anxiety (38.1%) and lack of concentration in the work (33.3%).

Conclusion: The rural post-menopausal women suffer from variety of health problems and it has also some relevance to the settings they come from.