Attitudes of Middle Adult Women Towards Menopause in Addis Ababa, Bahir-Dar and Hawassa Towns; Cross-Cultural Comparative Study
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study tried to examine attitudes of women towards menopause. A total of 150 middle
adulthood women government workers from three towns of Ethiopia; Addis Ababa, Bahir-Dar
and Hawassa participated. In the study data were collected by questionnaire with three
components; background information of participants, attitude about menopause and societal
attitudes to menopause. The average age for the occurrence of last menstruation was 48.97
years. Specifically 49.08, 44.18 and 48.78 for Addis Ababa, Bahir-Dar and Hawassa
respectively were found to be the average age of menopause. The result also revealed that
participants have positive attitude towards menopause however as the pair wise comparison
among towns explained participants from Hawassa town showed positive attitude than Addis
Ababa and Bahir- Dar town’s participants. As the result of Spearman rank order correlation
there is no relation between marital status and attitudes towards menopause. It was also
examined by Spearman Rho that there was no relation between educational background and
attitude towards menopause. The correlation between age and attitude towards menopause were
also analyzed by Spearman Rho and found to be no relation. As societal attitude were examined
the research resulted a positive attitude towards women in menopause.
Key words: Menopause, Menopause attitude, societal attitude towards menopause
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Menopause, Menopause, Attitudes, Societal attitude towards menopause