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The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial
PURPOSE: Aging is associated with many different health-related challenges for women such as menopause and its associated problems. Self-care (SC) is a factor with potential effects on menopause and its consequences. SC education based on health literacy has the potential to improve menopausal women...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36384550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02007-2 |
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author | Hossein Mirzaee Beni, Zahra Maasoumi, Raziyeh Pashaeypoor, Shahzad Haghani, Shima |
author_facet | Hossein Mirzaee Beni, Zahra Maasoumi, Raziyeh Pashaeypoor, Shahzad Haghani, Shima |
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description | PURPOSE: Aging is associated with many different health-related challenges for women such as menopause and its associated problems. Self-care (SC) is a factor with potential effects on menopause and its consequences. SC education based on health literacy has the potential to improve menopausal women’s SC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of SC education based on the health literacy index (HLI) on SC and quality of life (QOL) among menopausal women. METHODS: This randomized clinical trial was conducted in Iran. Participants were 100 menopausal women purposively recruited from five comprehensive healthcare centers in the south of Tehran. They were randomly allocated to a control and an intervention group through block randomization. Intervention was an HLI-based SC education program implemented in four 1.5–hour weekly sessions through the lecture, group discussion, and question and answer methods. Data were collected before and eight weeks after the intervention using a demographic questionnaire, the Health Literacy for Iranian Adults scale, the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, and the Menopausal Self-Care Questionnaire. The SPSS software (v. 22.0) was used to analyze the data through the Chi-square, Fisher’s exact, paired-sample t, and the independent-sample t tests as well as the analysis of covariance at a significance level of less than 0.05. FINDINGS: There were no significant differences between the intervention and the control groups respecting the pretest mean scores of QOL (88.15 ± 32.36 vs. 79.6 ± 36.99) and SC (104.75 ± 12.31 vs. 103.32 ± 13.8) (P > 0.05). However, the posttest mean scores of QOL and SC in the intervention group significantly differed from the control group (66.44 ± 28.41vs. 81.3 ± 38.04 and 125.6 ± 11.23 vs. 102.6 ± 14.34) (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: HLI-based SC education is effective in significantly improving menopausal women’s QOL and SC and can be used to improve health-related outcomes among menopausal women. Clinical trial registration This research was registered (24/03/2020) in the www.thaiclinicaltrials.org with registration number: TCTR20200324002. |
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spelling | pubmed-96706482022-11-18 The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial Hossein Mirzaee Beni, Zahra Maasoumi, Raziyeh Pashaeypoor, Shahzad Haghani, Shima BMC Womens Health Research PURPOSE: Aging is associated with many different health-related challenges for women such as menopause and its associated problems. Self-care (SC) is a factor with potential effects on menopause and its consequences. SC education based on health literacy has the potential to improve menopausal women’s SC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of SC education based on the health literacy index (HLI) on SC and quality of life (QOL) among menopausal women. METHODS: This randomized clinical trial was conducted in Iran. Participants were 100 menopausal women purposively recruited from five comprehensive healthcare centers in the south of Tehran. They were randomly allocated to a control and an intervention group through block randomization. Intervention was an HLI-based SC education program implemented in four 1.5–hour weekly sessions through the lecture, group discussion, and question and answer methods. Data were collected before and eight weeks after the intervention using a demographic questionnaire, the Health Literacy for Iranian Adults scale, the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, and the Menopausal Self-Care Questionnaire. The SPSS software (v. 22.0) was used to analyze the data through the Chi-square, Fisher’s exact, paired-sample t, and the independent-sample t tests as well as the analysis of covariance at a significance level of less than 0.05. FINDINGS: There were no significant differences between the intervention and the control groups respecting the pretest mean scores of QOL (88.15 ± 32.36 vs. 79.6 ± 36.99) and SC (104.75 ± 12.31 vs. 103.32 ± 13.8) (P > 0.05). However, the posttest mean scores of QOL and SC in the intervention group significantly differed from the control group (66.44 ± 28.41vs. 81.3 ± 38.04 and 125.6 ± 11.23 vs. 102.6 ± 14.34) (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: HLI-based SC education is effective in significantly improving menopausal women’s QOL and SC and can be used to improve health-related outcomes among menopausal women. Clinical trial registration This research was registered (24/03/2020) in the www.thaiclinicaltrials.org with registration number: TCTR20200324002. BioMed Central 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9670648/ /pubmed/36384550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02007-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Hossein Mirzaee Beni, Zahra Maasoumi, Raziyeh Pashaeypoor, Shahzad Haghani, Shima The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title | The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title_full | The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title_fullStr | The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title_short | The effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
title_sort | effects of self-care education based on the health literacy index on self-care and quality of life among menopausal women: a randomized clinical trial |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9670648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36384550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02007-2 |
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