Effectiveness of Education Specific to Menopause Symptoms

Objective: To determine the effect of menopausal symptom-specific education given to menopausal women via WhatsApp on their quality of life and genital self-image. Methods: The population of the study, which has a classical experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group, was comprised of women between the ages of 45-65 across Turkey. According to the power analysis performed in the G\*Power3.1 Program, the sample size was calculated as 64 participants for each group, with an effect size (0.418), 95% power and 0.05 type 1 error, and was completed with 158 women. Data were collected with the Introductory Information Form, the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Scale (MSQLS) and the Female Genital Self-Image Scale (FGSIS). The research was conducted online via WhastApp in a pretest-educational intervention-posttest design. The data were analyzed in the SPSS 26.0 package program.