Impact of Soya Based Health Food and Nutrition Education on Climacteric Symptoms of Post Menopausal Women
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2012
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
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.
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Food Science and Nutrition