Effect of Health-Education Intervention on Perception and Quality of Life of Menopausal Women in Selected Local Government Areas in Ibadan

Abstract

Menopause is an important and normal developmental process in a woman’s life. It is marked
by the permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of health-education on the perception and
quality of life of (QoL) of Menopausal Women in Ibadan, with the intention of knowing how
health-education could impact menopausal women’s perception and quality of life positively.
Quasi-experimental study design was used to explore the effect of health education intervention
on knowledge, perception and quality of life of Menopausal women and the study utilized
multistage sampling technique and 130 questionnaires were retrieved out of 152 questionnaires
administered, all the retrieved questionnaires were valid for analysis. The findings showed that
the level of knowledge of the participants was better at post-intervention (96.2%) than preintervention
(93.8%). Also (20.8%) participants had negative perception at pre-intervention
while it reduced to (9.2%) post-intervention. The percentage of quality of life (38.5%) at preintervention
was increased to (66.9%) at post-intervention. The null hypotheses were rejected
(pv = 0.001) as there was significant difference between pre-interventional and postinterventional
knowledge, perception and quality of life using paired samples t-test. In
conclusion, participants performed better at post-intervention than at pre-intervention which
implies that health-education given had positive impact on their knowledge perception and
quality of life. It was recommended therefore that menopausal women be well informed
through health-education intervention to reduce the menace of menopausal syndrome and
increase their coping system.