This study aimed to identify eating habits, food consumption pattern and degree of menopausal symptoms of middle-aged women around Gyeongnam area. From July 30 to August 15, 2017, the survey questionnaires distributed and collected. Among them total 1...
This study aimed to identify eating habits, food consumption pattern and degree of menopausal symptoms of middle-aged women around Gyeongnam area. From July 30 to August 15, 2017, the survey questionnaires distributed and collected. Among them total 181 questionnaires were used. All data were statistically analysed via SPSS program v.21. Average age of subjects women was 51.5±3.0 years old and were composed with 101 below fifty (55.8%) and 80 above fifty-one (44.2%). In average, their height were 160.0±4.3㎝, weight 57.61±6.63㎏ and BMI 22.50±2.50 (kg/m²).
The results were as follows; There were no significant difference in general scores of eating habits, even though the group of the younger, postmenopausal and BMI>23 showed the tendency of eating habit scores higher than the group of the older, premenopausal and BMI≤23. Particularly the group of above 51 years and of postmenopause showed significantly frequent intake of beans, vegetable and fruits(p<.01) and seaweeds and mushrooms(p<.05), and postmenopausal group showed frequent intake of protein-source foods like milk and fish (p<.05). These all groups showed a significantly frequent intake of tot(Seaweed fusiforme) and raspberry(p<.05). However it was quite different in term of menopausal symptoms. Especially in psychological menopausal symptoms there was a remarkably significant difference in scores of according to BMI, that is, the BMI>23 group showed higher scores(p<.001) than BMI≤23. Finally there were some significant correlationships between variables. The older they were, the higher scores of food intake frequency they marked. The higher their BMI were, the worse their eating habits were. However there were no significant correlationships with scores of menopausal symptoms. From these results, it might be suggested BMI was related with some psychological menopausal symptoms. In a future nutrition education for choosing foods rightly by themselves may be needed to pre- or postmenopausal women with related symptom.