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Subject: Food Science and Nutrition × Author: Almas Nadaf × End date: 2017 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Impact of Soya Based Health Food and Nutrition Education on Climacteric Symptoms of Post Menopausal Women
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2012) Almas Nadaf; Usha Malagi
    An investigation was undertaken with an objective to assess the nutrition status, develop suitable teaching material, and assess its impact on knowledge of post menopausal women. The impact of soya based health food was assessed on post menopausal health of women. Thirty eight post menopausal women experiencing climacteric symptoms were purposively selected for the study and assessed for nutritional status, anthropometric profile, dietary intake, biochemical parameters and knowledge level. Presence of climacteric symptoms and knowledge level were recorded by using pretested questionnaire. Suitable education materials were developed that included flash cards, album, posters, folders, pamphlets for menopausal health of women. The women were randomly assigned to food intervention group and education intervention group with 12 each in each group and equal number of them were age matched and considered as control group. About 40g/d of soya health food was given to food intervention group and phase wise nutrition education was given to the education intervention group for a period of 90 days. The results showed that majority of them had high BMI and high WHR category (65.78%). Significant improvement was observed in food intervention group for total cholesterol (from 213.5 to 194.14mg/dl), HDL-C (44.45 to 46.05mg/dl) and LDL-C (136.96 to 119.37mg/dl). Reduction in mean menopausal symptom scores was observed in food intervention group (from 19.84% to 18.61%) and education intervention group (from 13.75% to 10.50%). Significant improvement in knowledge score was observed in education intervention group (from 15.66% to 22.75%).Thus, soya based health food is useful in reducing menopausal symptom scores, lipid profile and nutrition education is useful in improving the knowledge level of post menopausal women.