Today, women health has always been a topic of concern. Over her lifetime she faces many age related changes in her life. One among these changes is menopause. By the time she reaches menopause, she experiences many physical and physiological changes

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Introduction

• Today, women health has always been a topic of
  concern. Over her lifetime she faces many age
  related changes in her life. One among these
  changes is menopause. By the time she reaches
  menopause, she experiences many physical and
  physiological changes which are precisely termed
  as Premenopausal Syndrome.

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A comparative study to assess the knowledge on
premenopausal syndrome, among working and non
working women in selected areas of Tirupati,
Chittoor district, A.P
Mrs. A Seeta Devi Asst Professor Symbiosis
College of Nursing
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NEED FOR THE STUDY

• Nearly 50 million women go through pre menopause
  phase and most of them have experienced some form
  of premenopausal syndrome

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Contd.

• At this stage women suffer from many disturbing
  symptoms like hot flushes, irritability, lack of
  concentration, lack of decision making power,
  lack of sleep, mood swing disorder, night sweats,
  lack of memory, weakness, tiredness and fragile
  bones.

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Objectives of the study

• To assess the knowledge of working women on
  premenopausal syndrome.
• To assess the knowledge of non working women on
  premenopausal syndrome.
• To compare the knowledge of working and non
  working women on premenopausal syndrome.
• To associate the knowledge of working and non
  working women on premenopausal syndrome with
  their demographic variables.

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Research Design

•  2X2 factorial design. The design produces a
  study with four cells. Each cell contains an
  equivalent number of the subjects

Table 1.1 2X2 factorial design Table 1.1 2X2 factorial design Table 1.1 2X2 factorial design Table 1.1 2X2 factorial design
Working women Non-working women Total
Rural 50 50 100
Urban 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
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Independent variable
VARIABLES
Dependent variable
Occupation
locality
Knowledge on premenopausal syndrome
Non working women
Working women
Urban
Rural
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COMPARISON OF RURAL AND URBAN WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE
ON PREMENOPAUSAL SYNDROME
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ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) RESULTS Mean
and S.D of overall knowledge on premenopausal
syndrome

(N200)
Working Non working
Rural Mean 69.72 S.D 15.43 Mean 48.24 S. D 11.46
Urban Mean 66.46 S.D 16.26 Mean 54.76 S.D12.58
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• f value 68.01 for the variable, employment was
  significant at 0.01 level indicating that the
  employment had significant, impact on knowledge
  regarding overall aspects of premenopausal
  syndrome. The f value of 0.65 for the variable
  locality of residence was not significant.

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Association between demographic variables and
knowledge of working women (N200)

• Among working women there was significant
  relationship between knowledge and their
  demographic variables as education of
  respondents, occupation, education of husband,
  occupation of husband, income of the family per
  month in rupees and source of information at 0.01
  level of significant

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Association between demographic variables and
knowledge of non working women

• Among non working group there was significant
  relationship between education of respondent,
  income of the family per month in rupees, source
  of information at 0.01 level of significance

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Conclusion

• In the working women, majority women had
  moderate knowledge on premenopausal syndrome.
  Womens knowledge on premenopausal syndrome was
  influenced by some of the demographic variables.
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• In the non working group more than half of the
  women had inadequate knowledge on premenopausal
  syndrome. These findings suggested that extensive
  health education programmes were needed to
  improve knowledge among non working women.

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Recommendations
A study can be under taken to assess the
effectiveness of structured teaching programmes
on premenopausal syndrome
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