Menopause, coping and impact at the work context: voices from the Extreme North of Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the consequences in climacteric women's behaviour in their job locus. It is a work anchored in the data collection method and characterized as descriptive and exploratory in nature. Data were categorized, pre-coded and organized qualitatively, based on the content analysis and interpretation proposed by Bardin. The subjects of the study were 15 women between 40 and 60 years or older, health professionals at a family health unit in a city in the Far North of Brazil. Among the coping strategies used are the following: physical activity (walking in the street, bike ride), proper eating habits (natural products such as soy, flaxseed, no fat diet, low salt), religion (God, the Bible, prayers, go to the church). Besides that, searching for medical care (visits to the gynaecologist and the search for medical service at the clinic). Menopause is an important period of the female life, but it is not always properly understood and cared in an adequate way.