Effectiveness of yoga therapy on menopausal symptoms among the postmenopausal women in selected rural areas at Madurai district

A present aimed to study the effectiveness of yoga therapy on menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal women. A quasiexperimental research design was selected for the study. The posttest II mean score was significantly lesser in the experimental group than the posttest II mean score of the control group and also there was a significant reduction in posttest II than the posttest I score in the experimental group than the control group. This reduction was due to the effect of intervention. Therefore, there was a significant reduction on menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal women in the experimental group, it is inferred that the intervention was effective in reducing the menopausal symptoms. There was a significant association between the menopausal symptoms and the demographic variable namely, educational status (χ²value= 9.12 at p'value 0.26). There is a significant association between the pretest level of menopausal symptoms and the demographic variable namely, when the menstrual cycle first became irregular(χ²-value= 14.20 at p ’value 0.002). The researcher suggested that regular practice of nursing interventional strategies (yoga therapy and menopausal diet) were effective in minimizing the menopausal symptoms.