aAssistant Professor, Social Sciences, University of Isfahan, Esfahan, Iran
bM.A Student, Women's Studies, Isfahan university, Esfahan, Iran
cM.A Student, Women's Studies, Shiraz university, Shiraz, Iran
Menopause is a natural stage of women life and it means permanent interruption of menstruation and end of fertility period. Therefore, aim of this research is to study the relation between lifestyle and changes of menopause age in Isfahan city women. Material and method: the research has done by descriptive – sectional method. Menopausic women referred to Isfahan medical health centers were selected based on cluster sampling and sample volume was determined with 5% accuracy and 95% confidence coefficient as 200 persons. Collected information obtained using questionnaire along with interview. Collected data were analyzed using variance analysis tests. Research findings indicate that direct factors in women menopause age are: lifestyle (P=.000), sport (P=.000), lack of mental (P=.03), contraception method (P=.000), income (P=.002), employment (P=.000), weight (P=.006) and they have meaningful relation with menopause and also according to research findings there is no meaningful relation between feeding, smoking, age of last income, early age of menstruation, number of children, marriage status, and education with menopause age. Results showed that menopause age in Iranian women is very low than developed countries. With regard to the fact that there are several factors related to that, but there are many contradictions in this field; so more researches are needed in various points of the country
Menopause, Lifestyle, Middle-aged women
