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Abstract
Menopause is an important time in a woman’s life, her body going through
changes that affect her quality of life (QOL). This research is a descriptive study
design having two main aims; 1) assessing the effect of menopausal symptoms
(M.S) on women’s QOL and 2) assessing their practice of relief measures
regarding most common M.S. Data were collected by the researcher from 120
menopausal women attending the primary health care centers using interviewing
questionnaire sheet. The study indicated that, sexual and psychological symptoms
are the most common symptoms reported by the sample. Most menopausal
women tended to seek medical care for physical symptoms only. Statistical
significant relation was found between M.S and QOL and level of education,
occupation, marital status and family income and between coping mechanism and
level of education and occupation . There was a negative statistical significant
relation between QOL and M.S,while there was a positive statistical significant
relation between QOL and coping mechanism. It was concluded that M.S affect
women’s QOL negatively and recommended that developing and disseminating
educational material to raise women and community awareness about menopausal
symptoms, needs (especially psychological needs and nutrition) and possibility of
symptomatic treatment.