Velvezhi, G A (2019) A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge about Reducing the Menopausal Transition Symptoms among Premenopausal Women in Selected Rural Area. Masters thesis, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai.
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Abstract
Menopause is a natural biological process in women’s life which occurs around the age of 50. The life expectancy of the population around the world is estimated to be 75 – 80 years. The women population above 50 years of age group is expected to increase 1200 million, by the year 2020. The number of women approaching menopause and the women in menopausal age will also increase, majority of women may spend greater part of their life in post menopausal years. All healthy women will transit from puberty to pre menopause and finally menopause to post menopause state. During this transition period women undergoes alterations in physiological and psychological health. In a society, that glorifies youth and beauty, the transition through menopause can cause needless anxiety and fear among the women. With appropriate lifestyle changes women can pass away these problems easily. But most of the women were unaware about these changes. Awareness about the menopausal problems among the pre menopausal women can help in the early recognization of the symptoms and in reduction of the discomfort and fear and thereby enable them to maintain the quality of life. Health education and counselling given during the pre menopausal period would help the women in reducing the menopausal problems and to lead the remaining of her life peacefully. TITLE: A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge about reducing the menopausal transition symptoms among pre menopausal women in selected rural area. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the pre-test level of knowledge about reducing the menopausal transition symptoms among pre menopausal women. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme about reducing the menopausal transition symptoms among pre menopausal women. 3. To compare the pre-test and post-test knowledge about reducing the menopausal transition symptoms among pre menopausal women. 4. To find out the association between the post-test knowledge of pre menopausal women with their selected demographic variables. METHODOLOGY: This study was conducted with 60 samples in Quantitative research approach, the study design is pre experimental one group pretest and post-test design. Pre menopausal women ranging from 40 – 51 years who have not attained menopause in the Kalaignar Nagar rural areas of Medavakkam were selected for the study by convenient sampling technique. Pre-existing knowledge was assessed by using semi structured questionnaire containing 20 multiple choice questions. After the pretest, Structured teaching programme was given about reducing menopausal transition symptoms among premenopausal women. After 7 days post-test was conducted by using the same tool. Collected data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Frequency and percentage analysis were used to describe demographic characteristics of the study participants. Pre-test and post-test were compared using student’s paired t–test. The association between demographic variables and knowledge score were analyzed using Pearson chi square test. RESULT: The major findings of the study revealed that the overall pre-test level of knowledge score among pre menopausal women was about 43 (71.67 %) of the women are having inadequate knowledge, 14 (23.33 %) of them are having moderate knowledge and 3(5.00 %) of them are having adequate knowledge. After the administration of Structured teaching programme the post-test level of knowledge score was about 45 (75.0 %) of the women are having adequate knowledge, 15 (25.0 %) of them are having moderate knowledge. The overall pretest mean value was 8.68 with of S.D= 3.53 and the post-test mean value was 15.12 with of S.D = 2.28. The improved mean was 6.44 with of S.D 3.38. The student’s paired t – test score was 15.16, which was very highly significant at P ≤0.001. The association between level of knowledge gain score and their demographic variables shows Younger women aged between 40 – 42 years, women those who have attained menarche at 10–12 years of age, women with regular menstrual cycle and women living in nuclear family have gained more knowledge than others. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study revealed that structured teaching programme on reducing the menopausal transition symptoms has significant effect on improving knowledge among pre menopausal women. It gives a great insight to community health nurse and motivates them to arrange health awareness campaign and thereby helps to improve the quality of life during the menopausal transition period by improving knowledge of pre menopausal women.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | 301726156 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Programme, Knowledge, Reducing, Menopausal Transition Symptoms, Premenopausal Women, Selected Rural Area. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Community Health Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2022 07:33 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2022 07:33 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/18921 |
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