Educated teenager – educated mother – educated grandmother
O. Casian-Botez, L. Coca, D.S. Tomosoiu, C. Boeru
Elena Doamna, Women’s Wellness Center, Iasi, Romania
Aim: Medical information proves useful not only during women’s
sexually active period, but also at menopause. The present paper analyses the
existing correlations between the level of medical information and the tendency
to address a menopause service.
Tools and method: The questionnaire we used had two parts: the former
was a quantitative approach to the person’s medical education at various
stages of her life (adolescence, sexual activity, menopause) while the latter
covered the person’s tendency to address specialised menopause services. Among
the patients who accepted to take the survey we selected 196 females aged 45 to
57. We noticed that those with a high level of medical information at menopause
and an increased tendency to address specialised services had received some kind
of contraceptive education as teenagers (17.34%). 18.36 % never addressed a
menopause service; this category includes those with insufficient education both
during their sexually active period and at menopause and no education whatsoever
as teenagers.48.46 % did not address a specialised menopause service although
they disposed of a satisfactory level of medical information; this education
however dates from the sexual activity period. These women had been provided
with no information during their adolescence.
Conclusion: The results of our survey prove that raising contraceptive
awareness among women at the early stages of their sexual life (that is at
adolescence) will have favourable repercussions on the later stages of their
life. Informed teenagers thus tend to become informed menopause women, that
regularly address their specialised menopause service.
