Determination of Menopausal Symptoms among Women Attending Babylon Teaching Hospital in Al-Hilla City Ameen Wafaa Ahmed1,*, Kheleel Muna Abd-Al Wahab1 1Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Iraq *Corresponding author: Wafaa Ahmed Ameen, Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Iraq
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Objectives To determine the patterns of menopausal symptoms and to fnd out the association between the menopausal symptoms with women's socio-demographic characteristics and their reproductive parameters. A descriptive analytic study design was conducted on (269) menopausal women was selected throughout the use of non-Probability sampling approach. The sample of the study includes menopausal women who attended at teaching hospital in Al-Hilla city. A questionnaire has been used as a tool of data collection for the period 0f (13thFebruary-30th July 2018) and; including: Socio Demographic, Reproductive Characteristics, and Menopausal Symptoms. The results of the study revealed that (43.5%) of women aged (56–60) years with Mean ± SD (54.57 + 4.424). (74.0%) of participants are married. (33.5%) of them are graduated from institute and above. The highest percentage (39.4%) among those have body mass index (30–39.9kg/m2),. Forty two percent of study participants their economic status were suffcient to certain limit. Concerning reproductive information, (53.2%) had (4–7) parity, age of the last parity composed (67.3%) aged at (31–40) years old, (48.7%)of them have not been aborted throughout their reproductive periods, (79.2%).of sample under study have breast fed their babies. Top Keywords Determination, Menopausal Symptoms, Women. Top |