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A study to assess the prevalence of early and late menopause and its determinants among menopausal women in selected area of Ludhiana, Punjab.

Author(s) Jyotika Sharma, Suman Rani
Country India
Abstract Menopause is the suppression of ovarian function and leads to end of the reproductive period. According to World Health Organization, the age at which natural menopause occurs in women is 45-55 years. Natural menopause occurring before 45 is referred to as early menopause. Menopause occurring after 55 years called late menopause. The median age of menopause in women is 51 years and approximately 4% of women experience menopause before the age of 40 years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), natural menopause is defined as “permanent cessation of menstrual resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity”, which is normally recognized after a year -long consecutive amenorrhea.
Aim: To assess the prevalence of early and late menopause and its determinants among menopausal women in selected area of Ludhiana, Punjab.
Methodology: A quantitative research approach and descriptive design was used to assess the prevalence of early and late menopause and its determinants. Data was collected from 490 menopausal (40-60 years) women by using convenience sampling technique. Response was collected on Socio-demographic variables, self-structured questionnaire on prevalence and menstrual profile and self-structured questionnaire on associated factors.
Result: Major finding revealed that 93(19.0%) women had early menopause while 229 (46.7%) women had normal menopause and 168 (34.3%) women had late menopause.
Conclusion: The present study reported association of prevalence of early and late menopause with selected demographic variables. All the variables were found to be statistical non – significant at p>0.05 level of significance expect age, educational status, occupation, type of family, marital status.
Keywords Prevalence, Early menopause, Late menopause, determinants, Menopausal women.
Field Medical / Pharmacy
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-10-13
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2026.v07i05.8017
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