Introduction Today, women health has always been a topic of concern. Over her lifetime she faces many age related changes in her life. One among these changes is menopause. By the time she reaches menopause, she experiences many physical and physiological changes which are precisely termed as Premenopausal Syndrome.

“A comparative study to assess the knowledge on premenopausal syndrome, among working and non working women in selected areas of Tirupati, Chittoor district, A.P”

NEED FOR THE STUDY  Nearly 50 million women go through pre menopause phase and most of them have experienced some form of premenopausal syndrome

Contd…. At this stage women suffer from many disturbing symptoms like hot flushes, irritability, lack of concentration, lack of decision making power, lack of sleep, mood swing disorder, night sweats, lack of memory, weakness, tiredness and fragile bones.

Objectives of the study:  To assess the knowledge of working women on premenopausal syndrome.  To assess the knowledge of non working women on premenopausal syndrome.  To compare the knowledge of working and non working women on premenopausal syndrome.  To associate the knowledge of working and non working women on premenopausal syndrome with their demographic variables.

Research Design “2X2 factorial design”. The design produces a study with four cells. Each cell contains an equivalent number of the subjects Table: 1.1 : 2X2 factorial design Working womenNon-working womenTotal Rural Urban Total

Independent variable Occupation locality Working women Non working women Urban Rural Dependent variable Knowledge on premenopausal syndrome VARIABLES

COMPARISON OF RURAL AND URBAN WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE ON PREMENOPAUSAL SYNDROME

ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) RESULTS; Mean and S.D of overall knowledge on premenopausal syndrome (N=200)

‘f’ value for the variable, employment was significant at 0.01 level indicating that the employment had significant, impact on knowledge regarding overall aspects of premenopausal syndrome. The ‘f’ value of 0.65 for the variable locality of residence was not significant.

Association between demographic variables and knowledge of working women (N=200) Among working women there was significant relationship between knowledge and their demographic variables as education of respondents, occupation, education of husband, occupation of husband, income of the family per month in rupees and source of information at 0.01 level of significant

Association between demographic variables and knowledge of non working women Among non working group there was significant relationship between education of respondent, income of the family per month in rupees, source of information at 0.01 level of significance

Conclusion In the working women, majority women had moderate knowledge on premenopausal syndrome. Women’s knowledge on premenopausal syndrome was influenced by some of the demographic variables.

In the non working group more than half of the women had inadequate knowledge on premenopausal syndrome. These findings suggested that extensive health education programmes were needed to improve knowledge among non working women.

Recommendations A study can be under taken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programmes on premenopausal syndrome

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