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Volume 8
Gynecology & Obstetrics
ISSN: 2161-0932
Gynecology 2018
October 08-10, 2018
October 08-10, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland
5
th
International Conference on
Gynecology and Obstetrics
Quality of life in pre and postmenopausal Turkish and Polish women
Sevgi Özkan¹, Jolanta Lewko²,
İ
lgün Özen Çınar¹, Sinem Göral Türkçü¹ Dorota Izabela Piechocka², Pınar Serçekuş Ak¹
and
Erkan Alataş¹
¹Pamukkale University of Denizli, Turkey
²Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
Purpose:
The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between menopausal symptoms and quality of life in
women in the pre and postmenopausal periods in Turkey and Poland.
Materials & Methods:
We accepted into the study 499 pre and post-menopausal women who registered in the Denizli/
Turkey Pamukkale University Education and Research Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology polyclinic and 302 pre and post-
menopausal women who registered in the Bialystok/Poland Medical University Clinical Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology
Clinic Polyclinic. A questionnaire asking for sociodemographic information, Kupperman Index, WHOQOL brief short form,
Beck Depression scale were used in order to obtain data.
Findings:
The mean ages of the Turkish population were 41.61±4.80 for the pre-menopausal women and 49.14±5.50 years for
the post-menopausal women. The mean ages of the Polish population were 44.07±4.95 for the pre-menopausal women and
53.77±8.37 years for the -sh women in the post-menopausal period were significantly higher. When comparing the quality of
life, although there was no significant difference in the general health and environment subscale of Turkish women, Physical
health, psychological health and social relations were lower in the postmenopausal period. In Polish women, all quality of life
subscale scores (general health, physical health, psychological health and social relations and environment) were lower in the
postmenopausal period.
Conclusion:
In pre- and post-menopausal Turkish women, there is no difference in the quality of life in general health and
environment. Both the Turkish and Polish women in the post-menopausal period were found to have lower quality of life,
more severe menopausal symptoms and more depressive symptoms.
Biography
Sevgi Ozkan has completed her Master and PhD degree at Ege University, Faculty of Nursing in İzmir. She became Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecologic Nursing in 2017. She is the Dean of the Nursing Department at Faculty of Health Science at Pamukkale University. She has published more than 30 papers
in reputed journals and has been serving as Board Member of reputed journals.
ozkansevgi@hotmail.comSevgi Özkan et al., Gynecol Obstet 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0932-C4-033