MEASUREMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN POST MENOPAUSAL WOMEN IN INDIA -A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Background: Quality of life has important impact on the life. Women go through some of the transition in their non reproductive years of life to assess the quality of life and factors having impact on them are scored according to MENQOL in Indian women population.

Methodology: A systematic review was conducted by selecting the articles for review from Goggle scholar using the keywords assessment, menopause, quality of life, post menopause, India, MENQOL. The time frame of the search was from 2010 to 2020 to focus on instrument MEQOL which is used to measure quality of life. After each database was searched by inclusion, reference of relative database was searched for further use of MENQOL scale and paper reporting. An Internet search was also conducted to retrieve literature not available through usual databases. It was accomplished by combining psychometric terms (i.e., reliability, validity). Using the keywords articles were found on the internet

Result: The average percentage of each domain of all the 12 studied articles of MENOL scale is– 40.96%, 37.4%, 56.39%, 43.33% that is vasomotor, psychological, physical and sexual respectively

Conclusion: The study concluded that after comparing 12 studies and their scoring of MENQOL in Indian population physical domain is more affected than vasomotor, psychological or sexual.