Menopause Awareness Training Reviews

Pluses - learnt some new stuffMinus - not a big fan of online training as it's so easy to be distracted while doing it. But good idea to not be able to forward the slides etc until done. The video was rather full of white faces - not a whole lot of diversity in it - maybe an idea for other ones as opposed to reshooting it.

interesting course but I dont really believe in doing this for work

It is important that everyone is aware of how the menopause and perimenopause can affect people, and ways in which we can be supportive as colleagues, friends and family. As such, the course is a welcome addition to the iHasco repertoire. However, like so many of iHasco's courses, in (quite understandably) preparing content for as wide an audience as possible, we are forced to sit through half an hour of videos for material that could just as effectively be communicated to some in about two minutes of concentrated reading. The advice to use herbal remedies is material that should be removed. Herbs have pharmaceutical and psychoactive chemicals in them can interfere with other medication and even be harmful. (Those plants evolved to produce the chemicals in self-defence!) Though systemic bias in testing medication means people who menstruate might rightly be suspicious of 'Western' medicine, the solution is to trial medication properly rather than pushing potentially dangerous 'alternatives'.

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Whilst I appreciate the intention to raise awareness and increase discussion of the menopause in an open and nonjudgmental way I felt that it is unhelpful to propagate the myths of 'herbal remedies;' and light exercise as appropriate ways to treat what can be a debilitating condition for many.

I object to question one regarding various genders experiencing menopausal symptoms - only biological females experience the menopausal physical symptom NOT various genders !

The information about rights and the employer's responsibilities was good however, I found this course quite patronising and also that it simply did not get across strongly enough the potentially crippling effect of symptoms on some sufferers. Just listing the main symptoms does not go far enough into explaining how intense they can be and how soul destroying, both physically and mentally, these symptoms can be for some people. As someone who is now perimenopausal and on HRT, I had absolutely no concept of how debilitating it can be and I don't think this course gets that point across strongly enough for people who have not yet, or who will never experience symptoms.

The multi-choice test extends to no fewer than 20 questions, several of which were stupid with "joke answers" so of no real training value; these and others were so obvious / guessable as to place into question the usefulness of some (not all) of the course itself - as much as there is useful information to learn about this theme (including or perhaps especially for males to learn).

In the test there is a question about precise terminology for a specific biological event, when the menopause might start. It seems to me important that managers know the concept that menopause might start at an earlier age but I'm not sure why you require learners to remember the name. I took the test a couple of weeks ago and the terminology now escapes me as I write this. The fact that menopause can start at loads of different ages depending on the individual is the important part and that is still with me...

As always the content is of good quality. However, I find this method a very lonely way of learning or 'training'. It doesn't offer the opportunity to discuss things, offer other insight or suggest other ideas. Because of the test at the end it often feels like a memory exercise and I wonder how much of it really stays with the delegate.