مهسا پورحمزه

Menopause happens in the life of all women. During this process women inter to the new era of life that have many side effects and difficulties. The purpose of study was to evaluate the frequency of hormone therapy and other supplements. This cross-sectional study carried out on 384 menopausal women who attended in medical and health centers of Hamadan city in 2012. The way of sampling was multi- stage cluster. Data were collected through interviews with women in the clinics in the health centers. Data processing and statistical analysis were performed by using SPSS 16. 0. The results revealed that mean age of menopause was 38/3 ± 45/48 year. 81. 5% of the women were taking supplements that used hormone therapy (9. 1%)، and 72. 4% used non hormonal supplement that included calcium (38. 3%)، vitamin (27. 3%) and herbal drugs (6. 8%). Regarding to this results x2 test showed that age at menarche، smoking، mother education، BMI، type of menopause، and use of supplements in different menopause groups was not statistically significant (p >0/05). The results showed that 81. 5% of menopausal women were taking supplements from which 72. 4% was non-hormonal supplements. Therefore، effective educational programs with supplement interventions can improve the quality of life in postmenopausal women.

Menopause is an important event in women''s life. So it is really important for them to be healthy in this stage. The purpose of this study was to determine the socio-economical factors related to age at menopause in Hamadan city. This cross-sectional study was carried out on 400 menopausal women among 40-65 years old who were selected randomly from 5 health centers in Hamedan city during 2012. Data was collected by interview with women and it was analyzed by SPSS/16 using variance and multiple regression. In this study mean and median age at menopause were 49. 60±4. 02 and 50 years respectively. Findings of the study showed a significant statistical relationship between age at menopause and physical activity، family''s income level، family members'' smoking and educational levels of menopausal women and their husbands (P<0. 05). There wasn’t seen any meaningful relationship between women''s smoking and job and their age at menopause (P>0. 05).. Aside from genetic and reproductive factors، socio-economical factors are effective in age at menopause. Due to the increases in life expectancy and it''s relationship with diseases and mortality rate in women، menopause should be considered as an important epidemiological matter.