Quality of life in climacteric women assisted by primary health care

Geraldo Edson Souza Guerra Júnior, Antônio Prates Caldeira, Fernanda Piana Santos Lima de Oliveira, Maria Fernanda Santos Figueiredo Brito, Kelma Dayana de Oliveira Silva Gerra, Carlos Eduardo Mendes D’Angelis, Luís Antônio Nogueira dos Santos, Lucineia de Pinho, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha and Daniela Araújo Veloso Popoff

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: This cross-sectional study evaluated the quality of life and associated factors of climacteric women in Brazil using a random and representative sample of women assisted by primary care professionals. We investigated the variables using the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, MENQOL, whose mean scores were compared using Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests according to the sample characteristics. The variables associated with the outcomes in univariate analyses with a p≤0.2 were jointly evaluated using multiple linear regression. In this study, 849 women ranging in age from 40 to 65 years were evaluated. The predictors of poor quality of life in the vasomotor domain were women with severe climacteric symptoms (p

Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211617 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id= ... 11617&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pone00:0211617

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211617

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosone ().