Background: Strange interplay of hormones (especially inadequacy or lack of estrogen) affects the psychological health of the women & tendency to gain weight but the reasons are not sure & obesity may lead to many mental disorders.
Objective: The study was aimed to correlate the quality of life in the form of psychological well-being in perimenopausal and post-menopausal women with obesity.
Materials and Methods: 30 peri 30 postmenopausal women were included in the study. For assessment of psychological well-being WHO-5 well-being index was used.
Results: We found no statistical difference in both the groups for BMI and psychological well-being of perimenopausal women was more affected as compared to postmenopausal women although the difference was not statistically significant.
Conclusion: Necessary actions are needed to prevent occurrence of complications not only after menopause but also during perimenopausal period.
Key words: Psychological well being , Menopausal transition , Obesity
The articles in Bibliomed are open access articles licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Download PDF 
Post
