Assessment of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy utility on emotional and social well beingness among women with surgical menopause

Abstract

Background: Surgical menopause is the emergency procedure to be carried out in a woman when it is essential due to reproductive pathology. The post-surgical consequences should be monitored and controlled effectively with various intervention protocols. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is one of the commendable protocols to improve the emotional and social profile in women with surgical menopause. Objective: To find the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on emotional and social wellbeing among women with surgical menopause. Material & methods: It is a randomized controlled trial carried out in 230 women who have undergone surgical menopause. The participants were randomly allocated into the intervention and control groups. After obtaining demographics, CBT intervention was introduced - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy program-, which lasted seven months and included all six sessions. The pre and post-test questionnaires were obtained using the Emotional well-being scale and social concern scale respectively from both groups. Results: The scores were significantly improved after intervention, in the experiment group, in pretest, the mean score was 9.45 and the post-test mean score was 14.18, the mean difference is 4.73 whereas, in the control group, the mean score of 9.06 and the post-test mean score was 9.41, the mean difference is 0.35 for social wellness. Posttest emotional wellness level was increased to 23.65%. Whereas in the control group, the posttest increased to 2.25%. Conclusion: The CBT is an effective therapeutic intervention to improve social and emotional wellbeing among women with surgical menopause.

Keywords

• Hysterectomy
• Emotional wellbeing
• Social wellbeing
• Psychosensory output
• Hot flushes