Evaluation of Auditory Verbal Working Memory Performance of 50 – 59 Year Old Menopause Women with Normal Hearing

Document Type : Original article

Authors

1 Student Research Committee, MSc Student of Audiology, Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD, Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 MSc in Biostatistics, Basic Sciences Department, School of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

5 Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

6 PhD. student Rehabilitation Counselor , University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences , Tehran , Iran

Abstract

Background and Aims: Auditory verbal working memory is defined as the ability to learn, retain, and recall verbal syllables or words. Various factors like age, gender, education, and change in endocrine secretions, such as gonads, can affect the acquisition of memory and learning test scores. In the present study, the effect of menopause on changes in hormonal secretion was studied on women's working memory. 
Materials and Methods: A descriptive-analytic study was performed on 25 menopause women, aged 50–59, with normal hearing and who had had their menopause during the past two years or more.  Sampling method was available sampling which was perfromed using the Persion version of the Rey auditory – verbal test. In order to investigate the status of data distribution we used Shapirovailk test, to examine the relationship between immediate recall and delayed recall and delayed recall, Wilcoxon test was run, to study the correlation between stages 1 to 5, Friedman test was used, and to investigate the relationship between age, education, and years of menopause, Spearman's correlation coefficient was run.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the scores of trails 1 to 5. There was also a significant relationship between delayed memory with recognition score and also between education and some scores of memory test.
Conclusion: Menopause in the age range of 50 to 59 years does not affect verbal auditory memory and it seems that the level of education will have a greater impact on the acquisition of scores in a decade of life.

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The Scientific Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 2
July 2019
Pages 191-199

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  • Receive Date: 11 September 2018
  • Revise Date: 22 April 2019
  • Accept Date: 19 January 2019
  • First Publish Date: 22 June 2019

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