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Menopause Symptom Management in Perimenopause and Postmenopausal Period

NCT04140240 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2020-06-11

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Summary

Aim:The aim of this study is to relieve menopause symptoms and improve quality of life by applying progressive muscle relaxation exercises to women in perimenopause and postmenopausal period.

Method: This study was planned as a pre-test, post-test, semi-interventional and control group study in order to relieve menopausal symptoms and to evaluate the effect on improving quality of life by applying progressive muscle relaxation exercises to women in perimenopause and postmenopausal period.

In the study, Individual Information Form, Menopause Symptom Rating Scale, Menopause Specific Quality of Life Scale were used to collect data.

The intervention group consisted of female students enrolled in GeroAtlas60 + Refresher University, which is a project of the Department of Gerontology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Akdeniz University. The Control group consisted of female students enrolled in the Mediterranean Family Health and Education Association. All female students who accepted to participate in the study and who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. At the beginning of the study, pre-tests were applied to all participants. After 11 weeks of progressive muscle relaxation exercises, final tests were applied to the intervention group. The control group also underwent post-tests 11 weeks after any intervention. Progressive muscle relaxation exercises were then performed. After the researcher's explanation, the participants filled in the data collection forms themselves.

The post test data was collected in Jun 2019. The data will be entered in the SPSS file and the analysis of the data will be performed in the next stage.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

intervention group

Parallel Assignment a experimental design with pre test and post test

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Akdeniz University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Emel Ege, professor · Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-02-20
Completion
2020-03-18

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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