Assessment of Climacteric Symptoms and Its Impact on Daily Lives of Employed and Unemployed Perimenopausal Women in Selected Rural Villages in South India.

• Tác giả: Laveena Barboza, Varalakshmi Chandra Sekaran, Brayal D'Souza, Sushmitha R Karkada, Tenzin Phagdol
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Hospital topics , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 581783

Tóm tắt

Perimenopause is a transitional state which occurs in women in their mid-life. These women may experience climacteric symptoms that affect their day-to-day life. The aim of the study was to assess and compare climacteric symptoms and their impact on daily lives among employed and unemployed perimenopausal women. A cross-sectional survey was done on 160 rural south Indian women aged 40 to 55 years who were identified as symptomatic of perimenopause as per the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop 10+ (STRAW) staging criteria. The study participants were grouped as employed and unemployed. Climacteric symptoms were assessed using Greene Climacteric Scale and climacteric symptoms' impact on daily lives was measured using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compare the variables between the two groups. The total Greene Climacteric score for unemployed perimenopausal women were found to be significantly higher than the employed group of perimenopausal women (14.5 ± 7.23 versus 12.52 ± 4.9,