Manimegalai, A P (2012) Effectiveness of soyabeans on menopausal symptoms in postmenopausal women at selected rural community area, salem. Masters thesis, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem.
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Abstract
A Study was conducted to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Soyabeans on Menopausal Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women at Selected Rural Community Area, Salem. Pre-experimental research design was adopted. Non-Probability convenience sampling technique was used to select 60 samples. Structured interview schedule was used to collect the demographic variables and modified Greene Climacteric Scale was used to assess the menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal women. The investigator soaked 1kg and 50grams of soyabeans overnight and in the morning, boiled the soyabean in water with salt to taste in the house of a sample and administered 50 grams to each postmenopausal women for 3 weeks. The findings showed that 26(43%) postmenopausal women were between the age group of 53-56 years and most of the postmenopausal women 42(70%) were illiterates, 40(67%) postmenopausal women were housewives and 29(48%) were from joint family and majority of postmenopausal women 56(93%) monthly income was less than Rs.5000, all of them 60(100%) were married, 53(88%) of them were non vegetarian, 31(52%) of postmenopausal women were having 2-3 children and 27(45%) of them had menopausal period more than three years. In pre test 35(58%) postmenopausal women had moderate symptoms and 25(42%) had severe symptoms, whereas in post test majority 58(97%) had moderate symptoms and only 2(3%) had mild symptoms and none of them had severe menopausal symptoms. During pre test the overall mean score percentage was 60% (57.13±9.39) whereas in post test the overall mean score percentage was 44% (42.35±7.27). The pre and post test mean score difference was 14.78. It was found that there was a reduced menopausal symptoms after administration of soyabeans. The ‘t’ value of 29.22 at P<0.05 level suggests that soyabeans had significant effect on menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal women. Hence H1 was retained. The chi-square value (10.99*) revealed that there was significant association between the level of menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal women with their type of family at P<0.05 level, whereas there was no association found between the level of menopausal symptoms with other demographic variables. Hence H2 was retained. Soyabean is one of the alternative and complementary therapies which were found to be effective in reducing menopausal symptoms among post menopausal women.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Soyabeans; Menopausal Symptoms; Postmenopausal Women; Rural Community Area; Salem |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2017 06:04 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2017 06:04 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/4137 |
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