Effectiveness of Selected Interventional Package on Quality of Life among Menopausal Women in Selected Community areas at Kanyakumari District

BACK GROUND: Each stage of human life is very important and unique in nature as certain physical development takes place in its own way. Post-menopausal period brings a lot of changes in the body of women and most of that leads to troublesome symptoms like skeletal problems such as back pain, osteoporosis, joint and muscle pain. Symptoms of genitourinary instability are bleeding, urinary frequency, itching, and dryness and those of vasomotor instability are hot flushes including night sweats, and sleep disturbance. Psychological symptoms are memory loss, irritability, mood disturbance, fatigue and poor quality of life. It can cause changes in body images, attitude towards ageing and also leads to mood changes. The aim of the study to evaluate effectiveness of selected inteventional package on quality of life among menopausal women in selected community areas at Kanyakumari district. MATERIALS` AND METHODS: The design adopted was quasi experimental pre test and post test control group design. The convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples. The conceptual frame work selected for this study is Imogene King’s Goal Attainment Theory (1981). The tool used for data collection procedure was Utian quality of life scale. RESULTS: In pre test most of the menopausal women (33.33%) in the experimental group had good quality of life and in control group 16.67% of them had high quality of life after administration of interventional package it was supervising that 70% had good quality of life in the experimental group and 26.67% had high quality life. There was a significant improvement in mean post test quality of life score (MD 19.86, t = 13.57, p = <0.0001) in experimental group. The mean post test quality of the life in the experimental group 69.8, greater than control group (MD -22.2, t=4.05, p =