Introduction: An average Indian woman spends almost one-third of her life span in the postmenopausal phase enduring the consequences of hormonal decline. About 89.3% menopausal women experience at least one or more menopausal symptom(s). Soybeans and chickpeas naturally contains the phytoestrogens that are used to mitigate the menopausal problems. Hence, to ensure a quality life to these women, attention needs to be focused on menopausal problems to alleviate these problems through appropriate interventions. Natural estrogens can be very helpful during menopause to mitigate the problems. Objective: To evaluate and compare the effectiveness of soybean vs chickpeas on menopausal symptoms among women. Materials and methods: True experimental research design was adopted for the study. A total of 150 menopausal women were selected by the purposive sampling technique with randomization (50 samples in each group). Group I received soybean, group II received chickpea, and group III was the control group. Pretest and posttest were done by using the Greene Climacteric Menopausal Assessment Scale. About 50 g of boiled soybean and chickpea were given to group I and group II for 21 days, respectively. Results: The findings implicate that the menopausal women were in the age group of 49-52 years. The pretest mean standard deviation for the level of menopausal symptoms of the soybean group was 67.0 ± 4.745 and posttest was 33.4 ± 6.021. The pretest mean standard deviation for the level of menopausal symptoms of the chickpea group was 66.8 ± 4.929 and posttest was 43.2 ± 7.301. Soybean and chickpea were effective in reduction of menopausal symptoms in both group I and group II. Results show that the t value for group I was 32.4 and group II was 22.60, which was significant at p < 0.001 level. Conclusion: The study concludes that soybean was effective in reduction of menopausal symptoms among women than chickpea.

Introduction: About 30% of women may have unexplained uterine bleeding at some stage in their lives. There are considerable costs to both the economy and the health sector, in addition to the direct effects on the woman and her family. After excessive bleeding has been established, the acronym PALM-COEIN is increasingly being used to classify the causes. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and to find out the contributing factors of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). Materials and methods: A retrospective study approach was adopted with a descriptive research design. The population for the study includes women diagnosed with AUB. The tool contains demographic variables of women with AUB, clinical variables, and contributing factors to assess AUB by using PALM-COEIN classification. Results: With regard to age, the maximum 213 (78%) were in a group of 40 years and above. In the menstrual cycle, 159 (58.2%) were having a regular cycle. Out of 273 women, 202 (74%) have no previous history of medical illness. The value of body mass index (BMI) shows 151 (55.3%) had normal BMI. The prevalence rate was 6.94%. About 93 (34.1%) had maximum contributing factor with adenomyosis. Then, 50 (18.3%) had iatrogenic as a contributing factor. There is no malignancy and hyperplasia and coagulopathy as a contributing factor. According to the findings of this report, AUB can cause unnecessary disruption in women's daily activities, as well as serious medical consequences or exacerbation of anemia.

Menopause is the course time when menstruation ceases in the life of a woman. It is commonly associated with troubling symptoms such as fatigue, hot flashes, joint pain, and mood swings, resulting in lower estrogen levels. Around one third of the Indian women contribute approximately one third of the life in menopause, surviving with the consequences of hormonal deprivation. Alternative methods for mitigating menopausal symptoms are lifestyle changes, use of Yoga and meditation, use of hormone therapy, and phytoestrogen-rich foods such as soybeans. Studies recommend that phytoestrogen supplementation offers a possible alternative or complement to conventional hormonal replacement therapy (HRT). Soybean exhibits the highest concentration of isoflavones. Everyday intake of 68 g of soybeans had been evidenced to have diminished menopausal symptoms.