為提供中年婦女對更年期健康照護資訊，研究者發展一份更年期衛教方案:包含、DVD、衛教手冊，並以 PowerPoint介紹衛教內容。於2008 年期間招募基隆區中年婦女共169位參加衛教介入，其中 有88位年婦女全程參加此更年期衛教方案:含前測、參加衛教及小組討論，並於衛教措施後6週 、4個月後，完成後測1及 後測2。為了使此一衛教方案能持續並能發揮最大的功效，並且能讓中年婦女得到延展性的效益。研究者設計追蹤評估調查，探討參加更年期衛教措施的中年婦女，兩年後其自我照顧的行為之實行及其生活品質的狀況，並與未參加衛教措施的控制組中年婦女比較。這研究的主要目的為追蹤評估並比較此一更年期衛教方案對中年婦女自我照顧的行為及其生活品質的影響。研究結果顯示，在控制其他的變項，參加衛教措施的婦女，在生活品質得分統計上有意義顯著性的高於未參加衛教的控制組，但在自我照顧行為上的得分則無顯著性的差異。 A peri-menopausal education intervention, including a DVD, a booklet and PowerPoint presentation, was developed and conducted during 2008. A total of 88 middle-aged women completed the whole program, including post-test 1 and post-test 2, at six weeks and four months respectively after the educational intervention. In order to implement the educational program consistently and to ensure maximum accessibility and sustainability of the educational program for women, a follow-up investigation is designed to explore participants’ menopausal self-care behaviours and their quality of life two years after the intervention. This longitudinal study aimed to evaluate the effect of the peri-menopausal education intervention for middle-aged women on self-care behaviours and quality of life two years follow-up after the education intervention. The results of the study have shown that the estimates of the effectiveness of the peri-menopausal education intervention had significant changes in terms of quality of life as compared with the control group. It highlighted that the effects of the educational intervention was increasing participants’ sense of well-being, but did not increase participants’ self-care behaviours at two years follow up.
