A Study on Mental Health Problems During Menopause and Post-Menopause Middle-Aged Women

Menopause can mark a woman's entry into a new stage of life. It is the stage at which the menstrual cycle permanently ends. A hormonal, physical, and mental transition often occurs during this time between the ages of 40 and 60. These advancements may occur gradually or without warning. Among women going through the menopause, mental health problems such anxiety, stress, and sadness are documented. The purpose of the current study is to investigate how menopausal symptoms affect middle-aged women's mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression. A basic random selection technique was used to pick 100 middle-aged women between the ages of 45 and 60. Of them, 50 were middle-aged office-going women during menopause and the other 50 were post-menopause. Kumar P. (1992) and Goldberg and Hillier's GHQ-28 and the mental state checklist (MHC) were used to gather data on anxiety and depression. The middle-aged women employed as faculty teachers in the current study had physical symptoms, depression, social dysfunction, and moderate to high levels of stress. Not only did the current tiny study uncover a statistically significant difference between the groups, but it was also intriguing to note that the post-menopausal group had comparatively higher levels of those components than the menopause group had.