A study to assess the level of hot flushes among menopausal women at Namakkal District
International Journal of Development Research
A study to assess the level of hot flushes among menopausal women at Namakkal District
Received 17th February, 2023; Received in revised form 27th March, 2023; Accepted 30th March, 2023; Published online 30th April, 2023
Copyright©2023, Dr. Jayadeepa, T. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A Descriptive research design study was conducted among 20 menopausal women residing in Sakthi Nagar, Namakkal to assess the level of incidence of Hot flushes among Menopausal women by using MRS (Menopause Rating Scale). The demographic variables of the findings revealed that the Highest percentage (60%) of women were in the age group of 57- 60 years, 30 % them had Secondary education, 30 % & 30 % of them were moderate and heavy workers. 45% of the menopausal women attained menarche at the age of 14 years. 65% of the menopausal women were Hindus. The level of Hot flushes scores shows that 40% of menopausal women had moderate Hot flushes symptoms, 45% of menopausal women had severe Hot flushes symptoms and 15% of menopausal women had very severe Hot flushes symptoms. No significant thw association was found between level of hot flushes symptoms scores and their demographic variables.
