Assessment of nutritional status and dietary habits of North Indian menopausal women

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Author Details : Pooja Dubey, Kalpana Gupta, Raghunath Shahaji More*, Khushboo Kumari, Jitendra Patel

Volume : 9, Issue : 3, Year : 2022

Article Page : 126-130

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.jchm.2022.025

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Abstract

Introduction: Menopause is the challenging period of a woman’s life marking the end of reproductive phases, normally occurring at mid forty between 45-55 years of age. Approximately 43 million of postmenopausal women is in India now. There is Drop in the level of estrogen and progesterone hormone that produce short-term and long-term effects.
Objectives: Main objectives were to assess the interventional measures in order to bring awareness and improvement in the nutritional status of menopausal women.
Materials and Methods: A total of 100 post-menopausal women subjects were selected using purposive random sampling technique. Experiment was conducted in three phases. With help of Questionnaire collected Data were analyzed by using SPSS 16 software. Majority of Selected samples were from 46 - 50 year of age group, in which 26 % had the habit of consuming milk daily while 51% once a week.63% had the habit of exercise, 61.20 %, 26.86 % and 11.94 were following Walking, yoga and exercise percent respectively. 62 % of women had aching joint and muscle pain as a psychological symptom and vaginal dryness, skin wrinkling and skin itching. 28 % of menopausal women had problem of weight gain, bone disease. 67 percent, among all of the menopausal women had put an effort to lose weight.
Results: The prevalence of physiological symptoms and psychological symptoms were reported in more percentage. After imparting nutrition education using developed material like booklet, diet-charts, significant improvement and awareness regarding various aspects of menopause were noticed among menopausal women.

Keywords: Menopausal women, Nutritional deficiency, Menopause, progesterone, Psychomotor coordination, Estrogen

How to cite : Dubey P, Gupta K, More R S, Kumari K, Patel J, Assessment of nutritional status and dietary habits of North Indian menopausal women. J Community Health Manag 2022;9(3):126-130

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