A team of scholars led by Andrea LaCroix, distinguished professor at the University of California, San Diego, has developed MyMenoplan.org, a free website offering personalized menopause information and decision-making tools for women experiencing perimenopause or postmenopause. MyMenoplan is the first National Institutes of Health-funded website on menopause.
In a recent randomized controlled trial, Dr. LaCroix and her colleagues assed the impact of MyMenoplan on a sample of 200 women. According to their findings, women who used MyMenoplan reported an increased intention to obtain treatment, improved menopause knowledge, enhanced decision-making progress, and greater likelihood of revisiting and recommending the website.
“One of the unique features of the website is the ‘Create My Menoplan’ tab, where a woman can explore a symptom she’s experiencing, such as hot flashes, night sweats, or trouble sleeping,” said Dr. LaCroix, a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. “The goal is for women to create their own personalized plan to explore treatments, prepare to speak with their doctors, and try different approaches to feel more comfortable during the menopause transition.”
She continued, “It’s time to break the silence and bring menopause into the public conversation — because awareness is the first step toward better health outcomes.”
At UC San Diego, Dr. LaCroix is chief of epidemiology, director of the Women’s Health and Reproductive Justice Research Program, director of the Healthy Aging and Human Longevity Research Program, and faculty director of the Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.