Comparing the effect of education based on PRECEDE – PROCEED model in person-centered and supportive group methods on women’s psychological well-being in the menopausal period

BACKGROUND: Positive psychology introduce mental health as a positive psychological functioning and represent it as well-being psychology. From this point of view, psychological health is more supposed to be known as having positive characteristics such as self-esteem, positive social relationships, and satisfaction. This study was conducted to compare the effect of education in two methods of person-centered and supportive group based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model on women's psychological well-being during menopause. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was a clinical trial. One hundred and ten menopausal women have been placed in two groups (tests and control). The training program was designed according to the PRECEDE-PROCEED model. The educational intervention was implemented for two groups (person-centered and the supportive group) and the control group did not receive any training. Data analysis was used by descriptive statistics and in the case of normal distribution of alternative tests such as Kruskal–Wallis test, Man–Whitney test, Wilcoxon, spearman correlation, Spearman correlation was used. RESULTS: Results of variance analysis showed that awareness, attitude, self-efficacy, enabling factors, reinforcement, support, behavioral environment, six psychological well-being factors were significantly different from the individual group and control group. Furthermore, the overall score of the psychological well-being was significantly higher than the control group. CONCLUSIONS: As a result of the design and deployment of health care monitoring system, building and reform of community beliefs toward women's status in decision making and their role in menopause, the design and development of support group meetings in women's health care system and enhancing women's access to specialist and heterogeneous health services tailored to the needs of the menopause.