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| Quality of life after the menopause: a population study | | Author(s) | J E Blumel, C Castelo-Branco, L Binfa |
| Journal title | Maturitas, vol 34, no 1, January 2000 |
| Pages | pp 17-24 |
| Keywords | Menopause ; Quality of life ; Chile. |
| Annotation | Menopausal symptoms, such as hot flushes, headache, and sleep and mood disorders, can have a negative impact on the quality of life in menopausal women. This study aimed to assess the impact of menopause and some sociodemographic variables on quality of life (QoL). Four hundred and eighty-one women in Santiago de Chile were studied using the Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire for Menopause from Toronto University. Univariate analysis showed that menopausal women have worse QoL scores than women still menstruating in the four areas of the questionnaire: higher risk of vasomotor disorders, psychosocial impairment, physical disorders, and sexual disorders. Regarding the influence of sociodemographic variables (age, marital status, school years, work, number of children and sexual activity), housewives were found to have higher, worse, scores than working women in all test components. However, logistic regression demonstrated that the only variable found to cause a significant impairment in QoL was menopause. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000126205 A |
| Classmark | CC:BD: F:59: 7WA |
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