College of Nursing, St. Stephen's Hospital, Tis Hazari, New Delhi
*Correspondence author: Irene Vanlalnunkimi, College of Nursing, St. Stephen's Hospital, Tis Hazari, New Delhi, E-mail: Irene.nunkimi@gmail.com
Online published on 27 January, 2017.
The aim of the study is to find the effectiveness of a planned teaching programme on remedial measures of bio-psycho-social problems among the post menopausal women to enhance their quality of life by assessing their bio-psycho-social problems and suggesting the remedial measures.
In a selected community of 30 Darlong post menopausal women from North Tripura (India), the study was conducted. Tools used in this study were (i) Demographic proforma (ii) Rating scale on perceived biopsychosocial problems (iii) A structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge level of post menopausal women on remedial measure of biopsychosocial problems. Cronbach's Alpha formula, structured questionnaire split half technique and Spearman Brown prophecy formula were also used. Both inferential and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis.
Post-menopausal women significantly gained knowledge on remedial measures after administration of planned teaching programme (t=17.56 p<0.05). The mean percentage of post test score was highest (87.84%). The highest modified gain 0.81% was in the remedial measures of biopsychosocial problems.
Planned Teaching programme effectively convince women to positively perceive menopause as natural biological phenomena.
Reproductive age, menopause, climacteric, peri-menopause, post-menopause, bio-psycho social, Cronbach's Alpha Formula, Split half technique, Spearman Brown prophesy, pre-test, t-test and post test (O1 -X-O2), amenorrhea, modifying factors, planned teaching, remedial measures
