Menopausal and post-menopausal women of health status at Assiut Governorate

According to the WHO increase in life - expectancy and aging associated problems are increased, in developing countries 5 to 8% of the population arc postmenopausal women [WHO 1996]. The aim of this study is to assess menopausal and postmenopausal women health status in Assiut Governorate. A descriptive study was conducted; the target population was four hundred postmenopausal women, 220 from urban [Assiut city] and 180 women from rural [El-Asara and Mosha village].During the period from first March 2009 to the end of August 2009, Data was collected through home visits by using an interview questionnaire sheet developed by the investigator. . It includes three parts. First part includes socio demographic characteristics [age, residence, education, occupation, marital status, and income]. Second Part includes Physical characteristics, [height, weight, blood pressure, elimination, nutritional habits, teeth, sleeping hours and daily activities]. Third Part includes Health characteristics; [periodic check-up, health problems, exposure to accident some physiological changes related to age].The results reveled that the mean age of the studied sample at menopause was 45.9+3.7.The most common symptoms hot flushes [61%] and insomnia [51%].About Three quarter [76%] percent of women had health problems, the most common were hypertension [36.5] and diabetes [20.5%]. The percentage of agreement was statistically significant higher among women of post- menopause more than 60 years p<0.05. In .conclusion most of postmenopausal women were suffering from hot flushes and insomnia with menopause and had health problems .The present study recommended Increase the awareness of women regarding menopausal changes through mass media, educational programs in postmenopausal clinics

Study opinions of women towards early marriage of girls in [Minia and Assiut]

This study aimed to identify women's opinions regarding early marriage of girls This study was conducted in all out patient clinic at Assiut University Hospitals, Assiut General Hospital [Elshamla Hospital] and El-Eman hospital at Assiut City. Also at El- Minia University Hospitals, El-Minia General Hospital and Susan Mobark Hospital at El-Minia city. The study subjects were married women ,both from rural and urban areas who attended the out patient clinics in previous setting there total number was 3600 women divided to 1800 women from each city .Inter view questionnaire form was developed by the researchers to collect the data needed for the study. It consisted of three parts. The first one was concerned with personal and socio-demographic characteristics of studied women and their husbands. It included age, education, job, husband age and education, as well the type of family, whether nuclear or extended. The second part involved marriage characteristics such as age at marriage of both woman and husband, the duration of marriage, and the number of children. The third part covered women's opinions about early marriage of the girl. It included questions about the causes of early marriage of girls, agreement upon it and the reasons of agreement of disagreement, the suggested suitable age for marriage of females and males with the reasons underlying it, and the effect of early marriage on the health of rite woman and the family. All the questions in this third part were open-ended .Data was collected during the period from the beginning of January to the end of May 2004 .The study revealed that the majority of the women in the sample married at the age between 16 and less than 25 years the, most important cause of early marriage is tradition according to [83.5%] of studied women's opinions. As for the women who disagreed upon early marriage, the main reason was girls' psychological immaturity [66.7%]. The study illustrates that [74.5%]of the sample agreed that early marriage negatively affects women's health and [71.5%] agreed that early marriage negatively affects family health. Also the study shows statistically significant differences between the age at marriage of studied women and their residence, education, job, and family type [p<0.001]. The results indicates that agreement upon early marriage was statistically significantly higher among women from Minia [p<0.001]. The study recommended that educational interventions target those women at higher risk of early marriage and who could have more intention to give their daughters to marriage at early age. These specifically include poor uneducated rural women. Thus, educational and counseling sessions should be provided by nurses in health care settings. The role of the media should also be emphasized

Physical and health profile of post-menopausal women in Assiut

The aim of this study is to identify the physical and health profile of postmenopausal women in Assiut. Menopause is a beginning of another phase of women's life. Menopausal women are more vulnerable to body changes and certain illness, including heart diseases due to shifting hormonal levels. A descriptive study was conducted; the target population was two hundred postmenopausal women, 110 from urban [Assiut city] and 90 women from rural [E1A sara].During the period from first January 2004 to the end of June 2004, Data was collected through home visits by using an interview questionnaire sheet which developed by the investigators. The results reveled that the mean age of the studied sample at menopause was 47.9 +/- 3.7.The most common symptoms were hot flushes [61%] and insomnia [51%].More than half of the women [56.5%] in obese category while 34% were in morbid obese category. Seventy percent of women had health problems, the most common were hypertension [36.5] and diabetes [20.5%]. In conclusion most of postmenopausal women were in obese category, suffering from hot flushes and insomnia with menopause and had health problems .Increase the awareness of women regarding men-opausal changes through mass media .educational programs and postmenopausal clinics is recommended

Child abuse in urban and rural areas of Assiut.

The study aims to identify child abuse at home in Urban and rural areas of Assiut Governorate. The sample comprised 400 mothers; 200 mothers from Assuit City and 200 from three rural villages around Assuit. A questionnaire sheet was designed to collect the relevant information about child neglect [physical, medical, safety and educational] and child abuse [emotional and physical]. The study was carried out during the period from January, to the end of September 2003. The study revealed that children living within overcrowded families are liable to suffer from neglect either physical, safety, medical or educational than those living in small sized families. Family instability especially traveling of parents or parental separation are important factors leading to child abuse. Neglect [physical, safety and medical] decrease with increased level of education. Finally safety and medical neglect are higher in rural than in urban localities