Climateric: Women’s Perception In Front Of Signs And Symptoms And The Importance Of The Woman’s Health Consultation

This study approached woman’s perception before the signs and symptoms of climateric and the importance of the Woman’s Health consultation as offered by the Family Health Units. Objective: To assess the woman’s knowledge on climateric, as well as the identification of the signs and symptoms. Methodology: Research of descriptive, exploratory character of quali-quantitative approach carried out by means of a semi-structured questionnaire applied at a FHU in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista/BA. Result and Discussion: Out of the sixteen women interviewed, most of them were illiterate, with monthly income of a minimum wage. The symptoms of the climateric syndrome was intense heat. In the women’s discourse, most of them do not know what climateric is, confused only with absence of menstruation or something that bothers much. Conclusion: It is essential that the professionals be more prepared in order to see women in the climateric period, because this is an important phase in the woman’s life, in which many of them can not perceive it as a biologic process, but as a pathological one.