The Effect of Complementary and Alternative Treatment Methods Applied by Women in Postmenopausal Period on Their Menopausal Symptoms and Quality of Life

Year 2024, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 122 - 132, 03.09.2024

Gülhan Yiğitalp , Leyla Zengin Aydın , Evin Korkmaz

https://doi.org/10.53811/ijtcmr.1454481

Abstract

Aim: This study was carried out to determine complementary and alternative treatment methods used by women in postmenopausal period and to determine their effects on menopausal symptoms and quality of life.
Method: This study was designed as a cross-sectional and correlational study nature and conducted in a Family Health Center in a province in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey, between March-August 2018. The 259 postmenopausal women who aged 45-60 and were registered at the Family Health Center composed the sample. The Personal Information Form, Menopause Rating Scale, Short-Form 36 (SF-36) Quality of Life Scale were used to collect the data. The data were collected by face-to-face interview technique. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression (MLR) were used to analyze the data.
Results: It was determined that 77.6% of the women in postmenopausal period used complementary and alternative treatment methods to reduce menopausal complaints. It was found that as the postmenopausal women received more nutritions-vitamins-minerals treatment as a complementary and alternative medicine method, their Physical Role Limitations as a quality of life subdimension decreased (β= -.359; p <.05). Physical functioning as a quality of life subdimenson increased as the rate of the use of mind-body techniques increased as a complementary and alternative medicine method (β = .273; p <.05).
Conclusion:Nutritions-vitamins-minerals treatments were a significant predictor for physical role limitations in the postmenopausal women, which is the sub-dimension of quality of life. Mind-body techniques were found to be a significant predictor for physical functioning.

Keywords

Alternative, Complementary, Menopausal Symptoms, Postmenopause, Quality Of Life

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