The Effectiveness Of Yoga In Decreasing Menopausal Syndrome Complaints To Improve Quality Life For Menopausal Women At Medan Johor Public Health Center 2020

Abstract

Background Menopause causes changes ovarian function which is automatically affect to hormone production that can cause of various complaints. The increases of the number of elderly women will cause its own problems, that is thecappearance of complaints during menopause that can affect to health. It causes discomfort and sometimes causes disruption in daily work, so it can affect for quality of life menopausal women. Yoga is one ofeffort to unites physical andphysical strength to stimulate an increase in beta endorpine production to reduce complaints due to menopause. Objective This research aims to determine whether yoga is effective in reducing complaints of menopause syndrome. Methods This research used a quasi-experiment design and pretest and posttest one group. Interventions were given to menopausal women at Public Health Center of Medan Johor from June to September. The respondents were 89 menopausal women using purposive sampling technique. The Primary data collection is obtained from respondents directly with a questionnaire guideliness. The Complaints about menopause both physics and psychological, were assessed using a menopause syndrome research instrument questionnaire adopted from the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS). Results The results showed the mean pre test was 24.15 with SD 5.193, the mean post test was 10.20 with SD 4.093, it’s mean there was a differences of average before and after getting yoga. The results of the paired sample t-test obtained P-Value of 0.000, Conclusion that means yoga is effective in reducing complaints of menopausal syndrome to improve the quality life of menopausal women.