Beta
288349

Effect of Nursing Intervention on Improving Coping Strategies Regarding Menopausal Symptoms and Sexual Dysfunction

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: One of the most important occurrences in a woman's life is menopause. Due to its effects on the emotional, physical, and psychological health of menopausal women and their families, it is crucial to emphasize menopausal symptoms, sexual dysfunction, and its coping mechanisms. Aim of this study was to assess the effect of nursing intervention on improving coping strategies regarding menopausal symptoms and sexual dysfunction. Research design: A quasi-experimental research design with pretest and posttest was used. Setting: the present study was carried out at gynecological outpatient clinics at Zagazig University Hospitals in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. Sampling and Subject: A purposive sample of 100 women was recruited for this study. Tools of data collection: Four tools were applied in the current study; Tool I: A structured interview sheet, Tool II: Assessment of menopausal symptoms sheet, Tool III: Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) and Tool IV: Coping strategies questionnaire toward menopausal symptoms. Results; revealed a highly statistical significant improvement at score mean in somatic, psychological, urogenital and total menopausal symptoms mean score (p = 0.0001). Also a high statistical significant improvement in all domain of FDFI (p = 0.0001). Self-coping strategies (20.0%) were the most common coping strategies used against menopausal manifestation followed by medical coping strategies (17.0%) and alternative coping strategies (15.0%) among participants. Conclusion Implementation of the nursing intervention had highly statistically significant effect on improving copying strategies regarding to menopausal symptoms and sexual dysfunction. Recommendations: Implementation of nursing program with a learning booklet for nurses should be conducted in order to increase their level of knowledge and practice related to all types of copying strategies for menopausal symptoms and sexual dysfunction.  

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2022.288349

Keywords

Nursing intervention, Coping strategies, Menopausal Symptoms, sexual dysfunction

Authors

First Name

Noura

Last Name

Mohammed Attia Ahmed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Lecturers of Obstetrics and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Zagazaig University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Noha

Last Name

Elsayed Mahmoud Radwan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Lecturers of Obstetrics and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Zagazaig University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

13

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

32569

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2023-03-03

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

2,109

Page End

2,127

Print ISSN

1687-9546

Online ISSN

3009-6766

Link

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_288349.html

Detail API

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=288349

Order

288,349

Type

Original Article

Type Code

631

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Health Care

Publication Link

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Effect of Nursing Intervention on Improving Coping Strategies Regarding Menopausal Symptoms and Sexual Dysfunction

Details

Type

Article

Created At

24 Dec 2024