PMID: 11910608Mar 26, 2002Paper

Psychosocial factors, attitude to menopause and symptoms in Swedish perimenopausal women

Climacteric : the Journal of the International Menopause Society
A S Olofsson, A Collins

Abstract

To analyze attitude to menopause from women's own accounts and to examine whether psychosocial factors and attitude are associated with symptom reporting. The data form part of a population-based longitudinal study of a cohort of women who have been followed annually for 5 years using psychological interviews and rating scales, health screening and hormonal characterization. The data reported here were collected at the fourth follow-up when the women (n = 148) were 53 years old. Women were classified as perimenopausal (27%), postmenopausal (15%), hormone replacement therapy (HRT) users (52%) and hysterectomized (6%), based on self-reports. More than half the women (51%) had a positive attitude to menopause, 24% had a negative attitude and 25% had a neutral attitude. Menopausal status was not associated with attitude to menopause. Factor analysis of symptom ratings yielded ten independent factors comprising negative mood, vasomotor symptoms, decreased sexual desire, memory problems, sleep-related symptoms, vaginal dryness, urogenital problems, joint pain, vitality and increased sexual desire. Only vasomotor symptoms and joint pain were associated with menopausal status. The other symptoms were more strongly related to psychosoci...Continue Reading

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