Correlation Between Menopausal Symptoms and Quality of Life in Post-Menopausal Women

Lack of public awareness calls for this research, as women’s post-menopausal health and quality of life are neglected in Pakistan. Objective: To find the relation between Quality of Life (QoL) and Menopausal Symptoms in postmenopausal women. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for six months. Post-menopausal women were considered based on non-probability convenience sampling, and 267 of them were recruited. In this study, the age range was 45 to 85 years. Outcome measure tools included are the Menopausal Rating Scale (MRS) and Short Form 36 (SF-36). The data collected were entered into SPSS version 23.0 for analysis. Results: This study used Pearson’s Test because the data were parametric, based on a p-value more than 0.05, according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The majority of the women, i.e. 165 (61.8%), were working. Results showed that the QoL diminishes as the severity of post-menopausal symptoms increases. Key findings included that out of all nine domains of Short-Form-36, Physical Functioning was vastly affected, with a percentage mean of 69.42% altogether. Conclusions: A negative relation came into view between the QoL and post-menopausal symptoms. It entails that with increasing severity of post-menopausal symptoms, QoL deteriorates.