فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Women’s attitudes towards menopause have an important impact on menopausal experiences, including the perceivedseverity of symptoms and women’s general lifestyles during menopause. Therefore, such attitudes should be considered whendeveloping management and counseling programs for women in menopausal transition. This systematic review and meta-analysiswas conducted to examine Iranian women’s attitudes towards menopause.Evidence Acquisition: In this study, searches for English articles were conducted using PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and GoogleScholar databases, and searches for Persian articles were conducted using Magiran, SID, and Google Scholar. All articles publisheduntil April 30, 2015 were considered, using the keywords “Menopause,” “Attitude,” “Iran,” and “Iranian women.” Out of 1160 potentiallyrelevant publications, 21 documents met the inclusion criteria. Then, the quality of the studies was examined by two reviewersindependently using additional pre-specified criteria. Measures of the effects were pooled, and random effect meta-analysis wasconducted using Stata software version 11.Results: Out of the 21 selected documents, 11 studies were eligible for inclusion in the meta-analysis. The results of the meta-analysison 3453 participants showed that 25% of Iranian women had positive attitudes, 58% had neutral attitudes, and 17% had negativeattitudes towards menopause.Conclusions: The majority of Iranianwomenhad neutral attitudes towardsmenopause, whichmaybe evidence of poor knowledgeabout menopause. Therefore, it is suggested that appropriate educational programs be developed and implemented by policymakersin order to increase knowledge and raise awareness among women about menopause.