Women's Expectations Regarding Menopausal Symptoms

Abstract

The menopause is a life transition, in which physiologic, psychological, and social factors potentially interfere with women’s prior health responsiveness, and for which adaptation might be necessary, to maintain life satisfaction. The time of the menopause is dynamic, replete with physiologic, intrapsychic, and social, cultural changes for women and for their families. The woman might request assistance to maintain and enhance her healthy during this transition. Attending to the biologic, psychological, relational, social, and cultural domains, and encouraging women to address the developmental challenges of midlife, might allow them to maintain their life throughout this life transition. Women’s social support by their families, friends, and the community can be helpful in coping with menopausal changes, added that, by seeking support from others menopausal women (Chuni, 2014). Menopause is part of a woman’s natural aging process when her ovaries produce lower levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone and when she is no longer able to become pregnant. The average age for menopause is 52 years. However, menopause commonly happens anytime between the ages of 42 and 56. A woman can say she has begun her menopause when she has not had a period for a full year (WHO, 2016).