Volume : 09, Issue : 01, January – 2022
Title:
18.ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MENARCHEAL AND MENOPAUSAL AGES AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH CHARACTERISTICS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Authors :
Joud Weal Alghamdi, Mufareh Asiri, Ibtesam ALshammari, Maya ALyahya, Hassna Alkahmos
Abstract :
Background: Menarche is a biological phenomenon in women’s bodies, which points out a critical life cycle stage. The girls begin to menstruate for the first time, which is continued for four to five days. With increasing age, the reproductive life of women ends with menopause.
Objectives: To measure the association between menarcheal and menopausal ages and other socio-demographic and health factors.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study among females in Saudi Arabia. The sample size was 384, and it was calculated by Epi Info software. Data collected included the participants’ socio-demographic characteristics, delivery-related questions, and questions about menarche and menopause. We used SPSS to analyze the data.
Results: A total of 414 females responded to our questionnaire, all of which were included in our analysis. Most females had menarche during 10 to 12 years (56.5%), with irregular patterns (72.7%), and this irregularity continued to 12 months and more (64.3%). Most females reached their menopause (74.9%), with a gradually stopping pattern (30.4%), and the most common age group for menopause was from 41 to 50 years old (61.8%).
Conclusions: We found that the socio-demographic and health factors are related to the age of menarche and menopause. Our study concluded that menarcheal age was a significant association with marriage age, nature of delivery, educational level, income, having chronic diseases, practicing sports, having regular menstruation, duration of irregular menstruation, having previous operations, using chemo/radiotherapy, happening of menopause and its age categories. At the same time, menopausal age was a significant association with all factors except smoking status.
Keywords: Menarcheal Age, Menopausal Age, Socio-Demographic, Health Characteristics, Cross-Sectional Study
Cite This Article:
Please cite this article in press Joud Weal Alghamdi et al., Association Between Menarcheal And Menopausal Ages And Socio-Demographic And Health Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Study., Indo Am. J. P. Sci, 2022; 09(01).
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