Effectiveness Of Nursing Intervention Package On Improving Bone Health Among Post Menopausal Women Residing In Rural Villages Of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamilnadu

Abstract

Osteopenia and osteoporosis are a major health problem in post-menopausal women (PMW). Exercise and diet supplementations are considered a cost-effective strategy to prevent bone health problems in middle aged-older women. The aim of this study was to find out effect of nursing intervention package on improving bone health among post menopausal women. The researcher was adopted a nonequivalent control group pre and post test design. Totally 250 post menopausal women had participated in the study. They had been selected by using enumeration sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics. The study results shows that the pre test mean value of bone mineral density in experimental group was 2.26 with S.D 0.70 and control group was 2.29 with S.D 0.84. The calculated student independent ‘t’ test value t= 1.306 was found to be statistically not significant. The post test mean value of bone mineral density in experimental group was 1.77 with S.D 0.87 and control group was 2.27 with S.D 0.89 The calculated student independent ‘t’ test value t= 4.404 was statistically significant at p<0.001 level. The study findings revealed that there is a significantly increase in bone mineral density level among post menopausal women in experimental group than the control group after providing the selected nursing interventional package (Knowledge on bone health, Calcium Diet and Exercise) for the experimental group.