The Effect of Mindfulness Practice on Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction, Sleep Quality and Mental Well-being Levels in Menopausal Women

Summary

Although menopause is a normal physiological process in women's lives, it is often accompanied by physical and emotional symptoms that can negatively affect women's quality of life. Hot flushes and night sweats, physical discomfort, sleep disturbances, increased anxiety, irritability, depressive symptoms, fatigue are among the most common and disturbing menopausal symptoms. In order to have a healthy and happy menopause and postmenopausal period, reducing women's complaints during this period will improve their quality of life. Recently, women are increasingly turning to non-hormonal, complementary and alternative methods to improve their quality of life. One of these methods is mindfulness-based stress reduction programme. Studies examining the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction programme on menopausal women are limited. Studies in Turkey have examined the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction programme on quality of life, anxiety, depression and menopausal complaints, but there is no study on the effects on life satisfaction, sleep quality and mental well-being. This study aims to fill the gap in the literature by examining the effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction programme on Turkish women. It was found that important parameters such as quality of life, life satisfaction, sleep quality and mental well-being decline during menopause. It is aimed to alleviate these problems with a mindfulness-based stress reduction programme and contribute to the active healthy aging process of women. The results of this study will contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals such as 'Healthy Individuals' and 'Gender Equality' by providing new strategies to improve the quality of life of menopausal women. It is also aimed to contribute to improving women's health and increasing the capacity of health services for active ageing by 2030. This study will be conducted on 90 women between the ages of 45-64 who have not had menstrual bleeding for at least one year and who volunteered to participate in the study, 45 of whom will be experimental and 45 of whom will be control, who applied to Ağrı Central Family Health Centre No. 6 in Ağrı province. The pre-test data of the women in the experimental and control groups, who were randomly assigned to the study, will be collected with the 'Descriptive Information Form', 'Utian Quality of Life Scale', 'Riverside Satisfaction with Life Scale', 'Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale' and 'Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale'. The women in the experimental group will be given a mindfulness-based stress reduction programme. No intervention will be given to the control group. The post-test data will be collected from the women in the experimental and control groups after eight weeks. The data of the experimental and control groups (coded as X and Y) will be transferred to the computer environment by a statistician independent from the research and the data will be analysed and the findings will be reported.

Conditions

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mindfulness-based stress reduction program

In this study, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme will be applied to the women to be included in the experimental group as a nursing intervention. For this programme, the researchers participated in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme consisting of eight internationally validated modules consisting of eight sessions given by Tera Consultancy and completed the training. The certificates of the researchers are given in the appendices. The experimental group will receive a mindfulness-based stress reduction programme for a total of eight weeks, 2-1.5 hours per week. The mindfulness programme usually lasts eight weeks because it has been reported that this is an effective period of time to produce noticeable changes in brain structure, stress levels, emotional regulation and general well-being.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ataturk University

  collaborator OTHER

• Agri Ibrahim Cecen University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

45 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-03-15

Primary Completion

2025-04-01

Completion

2025-08-01

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations