The Effect of Hypnotherapy Methods on The Modification Scale of Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (Menqol) and Cortisol in Menopausal Women

Abstract

A decrease in stressors will be followed by a decrease in cortisol, a basic principle used by researchers to apply hypnotherapy to menopausal women who experience complaints. Judging from treatment techniques, hypnotherapy is very far from pharmacological treatment. The role of the new instrument in measuring the quality of life of menopausal women uses a modified menopause quality of life scale. The general objective of this study is to prove the improvement of the scale of modification of menopausal quality of life with the influence of hypnotherapy through cortisol changes in menopausal women. The design of this study uses quasi-experimental, which is almost similar to the actual experimental method. The approach with the pretest-posttest control group was by comparing between two groups, namely the control group and the treatment group, and analyzed to see the effect of hypnotherapy on the quality of life of menopausal women through the MenQoL modification scale in accordance with the hypothesis that had been proposed previously. Both groups observed changes in the MenQoL modification scale through questionnaire collection and blood serum collection for cortisol examination (during the trance state cessation phase of the hypnotherapy group). After 4 weeks, both groups were again given hypnotherapy and healthy living education script (in the hypnotherapy group) and only given a healthy living education script (control group), then the cortisol test and the second MenQoL modification scale were repeated. The hypothesis is expected to have significant differences.