Mussarat Shaheen, Dildar Muhammad, Asghar Khan.
Lifestyle Behaviours among Postmenopausal Women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
J Dow Uni Health Sci Jan ;15(3):136-42.

Objective: To assess the level of adherence to health promoting behaviors among postmenopausal women in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Basic Health Units of Abbottabad from May to December 2019. All women whose menstrual cycle stopped 12 months back were included in the study. An adopted questionnaire of Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II was used for lifestyle behavior assessment. Overall score ranges from 52-208, where 25-103 means "Low", 104-155 "Moderate" and 156-208 means "High" level of adherence to health promoting lifestyle behaviors. Level of adherence was further categorized into two categories, i.e., "moderate" and "High" level of adherence was labelled as "adequate" while "low" adherence level was labelled as "inadequate" adherence to lifestyle behavior. Results: Of 369 postmenopausal women, adequate lifestyle behavior was observed in 183 (49.6%) women. Adequate lifestyle was 4.68 times significantly higher in <45 years of menopausal age women (aOR 4.68, 95% CI 1.66-13.18), 87% significantly lower among illiterate postmenopausal women (aOR 0.13, 95% CI 0.07-0.25), 96% significantly lower among postmenopausal women with <=20,000 rupees of family income (aOR 0.04, 95% CI 0.01-0.42), 91% significantly lower among women with in-between 20,000-50,000 rupees family income (aOR 0.09, 95% CI 0.07-1.54), while 56% significantly lower among illiterate husbands of postmenopausal women (aOR 0.44, 95% CI 0.25-0.78). Conclusion: There is a need to work on the health promoting behavior of the postmenopausal women with particularly targeting illiterate menopausal women with low socioeconomic status.

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