A Comparative Study on Psychological General Well-Being with Pre and Post Menopausal States of Women

Khushbu Rani^1*, S.C. Tiwari², Rakesh Kr. Tripathi^3**, Garima Srivastava ⁴

1-       PhD Scholar Dept. of Geriatric Mental Health CSM Medical University Lucknow UP

2-       Prof & Head Dept. of Geriatric Mental Health CSM Medical University Lucknow UP

3-       Lecturer Cum Clinical Psychologist Dept. of Geriatric Mental Health CSM Medical University Lucknow UP

4-       PG Clinical Psychology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, M.P.

**Corresponding author

Background:  Identified state of psychological general well being of women with pre and post menopausal state will be taken as a focus for psychological intervention.

Objective: To compare the psychological problems in pre and post menopausal women.

Material and Methods:  Subjects were recruited from the outpatient of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, C.S.M. Medical University (erstwhile KGMU) U.P. Lucknow, and purposively selected from General population of Lucknow giving informed consent for the study. A total number of forty females were recruited with pre (20) and post (20) menopausal state. Semi-structured proforma and Psychological general well-being Index (tool) were administered on all the subjects.

Statistical analysis: Mean sd, independent sample t test were used to analyze the data.

Results: The Mean age with S.D of the premenopausal women was 37.7±4.83 years, and postmenopausal women were 57.35±5.37 year. The areas identified in the psychological general well-being were anxiety, depression, positive well being, self control, general health and vitality in pre and post menopausal states of women. The difference between both the groups was insignificant with Anxiety (p<0.354), Depression (p<0.715), Positive well being (p<0.99), self control (p<0.08), General Health (p<0.90), and vitality (p<0.68). The obtained mean score suggest that mild depression and moderate level of anxiety, positive well being, general health and vitality is experienced by women in both the states. Whereas the slight difference between the mean scores in self control suggest that, premenopausal women experience mild level of self control in comparison to post menopausal women who experience moderate self control.

Conclusion: The present study suggests no significant differences in the psychological well being of women in the pre and post menopausal state. The study reveals that women were suffering from psychological problems like anxiety, depression, positive well being, self control, general health and vitality which may vary from mild to moderate level, in both pre and post menopausal states. 

Note: Paper was presented in 7^th IAGMH conference at Mysore in year 2011 by Ms Garima Srivastava.