Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Tingkat Kecemasan pada Wanita Perimenopause

Menopause is the time in a womans life in which the menstrual cycle ends, which happens as a natural result of decrease in estrogen andprogesterone production. A two-year period before and after the menopausal symptoms develop is termed as perimenopausal period. Manyphysical and psychological changes happen during this period, such as hot flushes, excessive sweating during night time, and many others.Although hot flushes is the most common menopausal symptom, for some women emotional changes is the first sign of menopause. Thesechanges may provoke anxiety which otherwise properly managed, would decrease the womans quality of life and finally lead to depression. Thisresearch aimed to analyze the effect of several factors to the level of anxiety on perimenopausal women by analytic survey with cross sectionaldesign. One hundred perimenopausal women are randomly sampled out of 793 population of 4554 year old women. Data was collected withinterview by questionnaires and analyzed by Ordinal Logistic Regression and Spearmans Correlation technique. This result shows that factorhaving significant effect on the level of anxiety on perimenopausal women are knowledge, attitude, family support, economic condition, andlifestyle, while social and cultural characteristics show insignificant effect. This research concludes that the better those significant factorscan be maintained, the lower anxiety level can be suppressed. Healthy diet, exercise, and emotional life all play an important role in womenshealth during and after menopause. So, perimenopausal women should be encouraged to enrich themselves with extensive knowledge aboutmenopause, improve positive behavior, and healthier lifestyle to suppress the anxiety level as low as possible.Key words: perimenopause, anxiety level, menopaus