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The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women
BACKGROUND: Quality of life in post-menopausal women and menopausal symptoms are closely related concepts. Influence health education policy in order to promote health and adopt a menopause lifestyle requires alternative strategies, including health training programs with community – based intervent...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304680 |
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author | Yazdkhasti, M Keshavarz, M Khoei, ES Merghaati Hosseini, AF ESmaeilzadeh, S Pebdani, M Amiri Jafarzadeh, H |
author_facet | Yazdkhasti, M Keshavarz, M Khoei, ES Merghaati Hosseini, AF ESmaeilzadeh, S Pebdani, M Amiri Jafarzadeh, H |
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description | BACKGROUND: Quality of life in post-menopausal women and menopausal symptoms are closely related concepts. Influence health education policy in order to promote health and adopt a menopause lifestyle requires alternative strategies, including health training programs with community – based interventions. The current study aims to survey the effects of support groups on quality of life of post-menopausal women. METHODS: A blind field trial (2010) was conducted at Saadatmandii Clinical Center (Robat Karim, Iran). 110 women were selected randomly divided into test and control groups (consisting of 55 ones). Menopause specific quality of life questionnaire (MENQOL) was used for evaluation of life quality before and three months after intervention; there was no intervention in the control group. Data were analyzed by using SPSS/16. Qualitative variables were analyzed using chi-square tests and quantitative variables were analyzed using Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon test, paired T-test and independent t-test. RESULTS: There was significant difference between vasomotor, psychosocial, physical, sexual aspects and life quality of this group pf women (P<0.001). There was no statistically significant difference in the quality of life of women in control group. CONCLUSION: According to the results method of support group can lead to improved quality of life for post-menopausal ones and it can be appropriate healthcare policy to promote health and improve life quality of this group of women. |
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spelling | pubmed-35218902013-01-09 The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women Yazdkhasti, M Keshavarz, M Khoei, ES Merghaati Hosseini, AF ESmaeilzadeh, S Pebdani, M Amiri Jafarzadeh, H Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: Quality of life in post-menopausal women and menopausal symptoms are closely related concepts. Influence health education policy in order to promote health and adopt a menopause lifestyle requires alternative strategies, including health training programs with community – based interventions. The current study aims to survey the effects of support groups on quality of life of post-menopausal women. METHODS: A blind field trial (2010) was conducted at Saadatmandii Clinical Center (Robat Karim, Iran). 110 women were selected randomly divided into test and control groups (consisting of 55 ones). Menopause specific quality of life questionnaire (MENQOL) was used for evaluation of life quality before and three months after intervention; there was no intervention in the control group. Data were analyzed by using SPSS/16. Qualitative variables were analyzed using chi-square tests and quantitative variables were analyzed using Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon test, paired T-test and independent t-test. RESULTS: There was significant difference between vasomotor, psychosocial, physical, sexual aspects and life quality of this group pf women (P<0.001). There was no statistically significant difference in the quality of life of women in control group. CONCLUSION: According to the results method of support group can lead to improved quality of life for post-menopausal ones and it can be appropriate healthcare policy to promote health and improve life quality of this group of women. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3521890/ /pubmed/23304680 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License ((CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Yazdkhasti, M Keshavarz, M Khoei, ES Merghaati Hosseini, AF ESmaeilzadeh, S Pebdani, M Amiri Jafarzadeh, H The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title | The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title_full | The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title_short | The Effect of Support Group Method on Quality of Life in Post-menopausal Women |
title_sort | effect of support group method on quality of life in post-menopausal women |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304680 |
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