The effectiveness of complex medical and psychological rehabilitation of women in the menopausal period

Methods enhancing of women health restoration in the menopausal period is constrained by insufficient knowledge and, therefore, poor consideration of psychological factors in rehabilitation programs. The role of psychophysiological and psychotherapeutic methods for building a personalized program of health improvement for women in the climacteric period and increasing the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment remains underestimated. OBJECTIVE Study of the complex medical methods' effectiveness and psychological rehabilitation of patients during menopause with the use of psychophysiological programs and certain psychotherapy techniques. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 90 women in menopause. The average age of the patients was 55.0±7.4 years. All patients were divided into 3 groups. In the 1st (30 menopause patients, average age 53.0±4.4 years) and 2nd (30 menopause patients with cancer or osteoporosis, average age 57.0±5.15 years) complex medical and psychological rehabilitation, including, in addition to drug therapy, physiotherapy procedures, manual therapy, psychophysiological and psychotherapeutic procedures were used. In the 3rd control group (30 patients, mean age 56.0±9.6 years), drug therapy, physiotherapy procedures and manual therapy were used. RESULTS The analysis of the obtained data revealed the emotional disorders in patients of the 1st and 2nd groups before rehabilitation. There were low and decreased values of the subjective comfort index, SCI (31.4±5.12-40.7±5.21 points); high degree of fatigue reflecting a pronounced and strong degree of chronic fatigue, CF (27.00±3.53-41.40±6.12 points), high values of the personal anxiety indicator, PA (47.6±3.52-55, 1±5.91 points).After a complex medical and psychological care in patients of the 1st and 2nd groups the indicators characterizing the emotional and personal sphere improved significantly (p<0.05). CONCLUSION The trial aimed to study the effectiveness of the complex medical and psychological rehabilitation of women during menopause showed a change in the indicators of the emotional and personal sphere after psychophysiological and psychotherapeutic influence, an improvement in the emotional state of patients and the life quality.