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| Meanings of Being There as a Menopausal Woman: A qualitative Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenology Approach | |
| Neda Shamsalizadeh1,2, Effat Merghati Khoei3, Shahnaz Rimaz4, Carolyn S. Pierce2, Nicole Rouhana2, Alireza Bayat3, Mary Ann Swain2 | |
| 1San Diego State University at Imperial Valley, Calexico, California, USA 2Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, USA 3Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Radiation Biology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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CJMB 2025; 12: 027-031 DOI: 10.34172/cjmb.2023.3602 Viewed : 225 times Downloaded : 265 times. Keywords : Qualitative, Menopause, Lived experience, Heidegger, Hermeneutic Phenomenology |
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| Abstract | |
Objectives: Menopause experience is not only a biological experience and is affected by women"s culture. Failure to identify the cultural needs of menopausal women can result in lower quality of care and patient dissatisfaction. The purpose of this study was to explore the meanings of menopause through women"s lived experiences to identify how the meanings of menopause were infused by women"s socio-cultural context. Methods: Qualitative phenomenology research applying the Heidegger Hermeneutic approach was used. Data was collected from one focus group including 9 individuals and 9 individual in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis was performed, and the themes related to the meanings of menopause were identified. Results: Two main themes were loss and stage. Subthemes for loss included femininity loss, loss of youth or aging, loss of health or disease, and loss of efficacy and competency. Subthemes related to the stage included the natural biophysiological stage and developmental womanhood stage. Menopause meanings were relative depending on losses and gains. Conclusions: Menopausal women revealed how social norms could positively or negatively infuse meanings to their existence. The language used for menopause revealed the underlying cultural meanings. When negative sociocultural messages about menopause were deposited to menopausal women"s beliefs, it was more likely that menopausal women link menopause to aging and a sense of loss. This study highlighted the importance of culturally competent care. |
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