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QUALITY OF LIFE, DEPRESSION, SLEEP QUALITY &POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTION AMONG MENOPAUSAL WOMEN POST COVID

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Shivanjali Pillay1*, Dr. Vijendra Nath Pathak2
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5a.0202

Abstract

Background: Menopause is entirely normal and biological process for women life. Postmenopausal women have experienced hormonal changes at menopause, such as depression, anxiety symptoms and other psychological issues and challenges. The physical and mental changes that occur during menopause can have an impact on many parts of a woman's life. Method: Correlational design was used in this study. The Research was done on 101 women between the age range 40-55. The simple random sampling was used for the selection of menopause women. The psycho metrically standardized tools of Depression (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale HAM-D), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) and Sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) were administrated to meet the objective. Results: The descriptive result revealed that perimenopause mean score is higher on positive emotions and quality of life than postmenopause, as well as sleep quality and negative emotions, depression mean score is lower than post menopause. The simple regression result revealed perimenopause and postmenopaus positive emotion strongly predict sleep quality, quality of life as a predicator of sleep quality, and positive emotions strongly predictor on depression and negative emotions predictor on quality of life. Conclusion: conclusion of the study women should make lifestyle and sleep improvements before and after menopause because doing so will promote their overall health and wellbeing. Positive emotions will also help to prevent bad emotions like despair.

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