Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge regarding Menopause among Menopausal women in selected areas of Nurpur, Distt. Kangra.

Rupali

Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge regarding Menopause among Menopausal women in selected areas of Nurpur, Distt. Kangra.

Rupali

Abstract :

The flower that blooms today will fall off tomorrow, the leaf that looks green today will get dried off, so with the humans. Human beings experience various turning points in their life cycle which may be developmental or transitional. Menopause is the physiologic cessation of menses associated with declining ovarian function. For this study Descriptive research design was used. The study was conducted on conveniently 80 perimenopausal women in selected areas, Nurpur. Data was collected by socio–demographic variables and self–structured knowledge questionnaire. Collected data was analyzed by inferential and descriptive statistics. Tables and bar diagrams were used to depict the findings. The findings depicted that 52(65%) had good knowledge followed by 16(20%) subjects had average knowledge, 11(13.75%) had excellent knowledge and only 01 (01.25%) had poor knowledge. There was statistically significant association of education and source of information with knowledge of perimenopausal women regarding menopause depicts that it had impact on knowledge of perimenopausal women regarding menopause. There was statistically non–significant association of age, religion, occupation, family income, marital status and type of family with knowledge of perimenopausal women regarding menopause at p<0.05 level