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Assessment of Psychological Problems In Menopause Women And Relationship’s Between Individual And Social Characteristic And Menopausal Symptoms In Referred To Tabriz Educational HospitalS In 2005-2006. Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2007; 5 (1) :37-45
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  Background : menopause is period that fertility changed to infertility. Symptoms like hot flashes and night sweating , atrophic vaginitis , osteoporosis increase of heart disease and possibility of depression result from menopause and cessation of mense . menopausal symptoms may cause depression but existence of a relationship between menopausal symptoms and psychological problems is doubtful . therefore this research is done with the objective of assessing the relationship between individual and social characteristic , menopausal symptoms and psychological problems in postmenopausal women.   Methods and materials : in this descriptive correlation research 500 menopausal women who referred to tabriz gynecologic clinics were studied. They had no history of psychiatric disorder, smoking and use of narcotics, hysterectomy or oophorectomy . evaluation for BMI , BP, laboratory test , pelvic and breast examination, beck depression, zong anxiety . questionnaire were done at first. Demographic characteristics, Cassidy social support, uzeng self – steem by interview and menopausal symptoms . data were analyzed by utilizing T test , pearson correlation , one way ANOVA with spss soft ware .   Results : finding showed that the mean age and depression score 59.2±10.4 years and 19.43±7.94 respectivly . more than of women have moderate depression 68% and only 24% of them were under consultation and treatment . 54% participants reported anxiety 72.5 % hot flash , 80% bone pain ,27% breast pain , 51 % headache , 64 % memory distribution 78% numbness , 58% skin crewls, 46.4 urinary incontinence ,40 % dysparonia, 84 %complained of low sexual desire. There was significant relationship between mean of depression score and menopausal symptoms , family income , number offspring and sexual hormones (P
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