Relaxation Training for Menopausal and Postmenopausal Women

What this trial studies

Relaxation training is one of the methods used in the reduction of many menopausal symptoms such as vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbance, and emotional status changes. Symptoms seen during menopause; sleep disturbance and lack of body awareness negatively affect women's daily lives. Relaxation exercises play an important role for women to manage this process better. In previous studies, the effects of relaxation training on hot flashes have been investigated, but a comprehensive study including body awareness and sleep problems has not been conducted yet.

Conditions in scope

• Menopausal and Postmenopausal Women

Interventions

• Relaxation training (Behavioral) — In Jacobson's progressive muscle relaxation method, the first step is to make various muscle groups contract, to realize what it feels like to contract in this body area; The second step is to release these contracted muscle groups and notice…

Who can join

Women only · Ages 50 Years to 65 Years · Accepts healthy volunteers.

Inclusion criteria

• Being between 50-65 years old,
• Going through menopause period naturally
• People who do not receive hormone therapy

Exclusion criteria

• Who entered menopause surgically or medically,
• With a history of cancer,
• Who take hormone therapy,
• With neurological disease,
• Who use anti-symptom medication.

Eligibility wording paraphrased from the public record. View the full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov before contacting a site.

Where it’s happening

Status & timeline

• Overall status: Completed
• Study type: Interventional
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: 2021-06-16
• Primary completion: 2022-11-19
• Last update posted: 2025-09-05
• First posted: 2025-09-05

Sponsor & contact

Lead sponsor: Baskent University (Other)

For trial site contact information, use the official record at ClinicalTrials.gov. Contact details change frequently and the public record is the source of truth.

Outcome measures

Primary outcomes

• Menopausal symptoms evaluation scale (MSRS) (6 weeks)
  MSRS was developed by Schneider et al (2000) to measure the severity of general menopausal symptoms. The scale consists of 11 items in total and each item is scored between 0 and 4. Scoring was graded as 0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate, 3 = severe, 4 = very severe. The highest score on the scale is…
• Pittsburhg sleep quality scale (PSQS) (6 weeks)
  PSQS is an index that evaluates sleep problems and sleep quality in the last month, consisting of a total of 7 sub-components and 18 problems. These components are subjective sleep quality (component 1), sleep latency (component 2), sleep duration (component 3), habitual sleep efficiency (component 4), sleep disturbance (component 5), use of sleeping pills (component 6) and daytime dysfunction (component…
• Body awareness questionnaire (6 weeks)
  The body awareness questionnaire is a questionnaire consisting of four subgroups (changes in body process, sleep-wake cycle, estimation at the onset of the disease, estimation of body responses) aiming to determine the normal or abnormal sensitivity level of body composition. It includes 18 questions that measure various aspects of body consciousness, such as the ability to recognize physical sensations, engagement…
• Body perception scale (6 weeks)
  Body perception scale is a scale that determines the satisfaction of the person with 40 different body parts or functions. The scale consists of 40 items and each item is scored between 1 and 5 (1 = I like it very much, 2 = I like it a lot, 3 = I am undecided, 4 = I do not like…

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