Research progress of mindfulness-based mind-body intervention to improve menopausal symptoms in women

Menopause is a natural stage in women’s lives. Menopausal health is receiving widespread attention worldwide. Menopausal symptoms refer to a series of physical and psychological symptoms that accompany physiological changes. As non-drug therapies are gradually being applied to the intervention of menopausal symptoms, mindfulness-based mind-body intervention methods have been more widely used and developed in China. This article reviews and summarizes the improvement effects of mindfulness-based interventions on female climacteric symptoms and proposes that mindfulness-based mind-body intervention methods can improve female menopausal symptoms, such as vasomotor symptoms, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and urogenital tract symptoms, thereby improving women’s quality of life and enhance happiness. It is suggested that further exploration should be conducted on the application of mindfulness intervention in the field of menopause health care.