Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the trend of health education to general menopause women in the literature for the past ten years.
Methods: Databases including the ERIC database, the PubMed database, a Japanese database GeNii, CiNii, and “Igaku-chuo-zasshi” were searched for articles in the approximately past ten years from 1997 to 2007 using keywords of “menopause” and “education”. Then, the studies in patientsand testees and the studies of therapeutic purposes were excluded and the intervention studies ongeneral women in menopause were analyzed.
Results: There were 19 overseas articles. There main issues were dietary counseling such as low fat diet for obesity and osteoporosis, information about bone density and muscular strength and exercises that paid an attention to menopausal symptoms. In addition, there was a study on the information about health promotion after menopause. There were 8 Japanese articles. There was an intervention study of exercise with spa treatment or nutrition education. As an effective health support for behavior modification and menopausal affirmative recognition, a coping strategy for menopausal symptoms, an offer of complex information and educational supports based on self-care has been presented. Health education taking account of times, methods such as computers or documents and places may raise satisfaction to determine healthy action by oneself, which suggested to increase one's knowledge.
Conclusion: The future education for general menopausal women have to be based on a programs aiming at self-capability and include exercise, nutrition and complex information taking account of times, methods and places.
