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- Title
Postmenopausal symptoms among Egyptian geripausal women.
- Authors
Sweed, H. S.; Elawam, A. E.; Nabeel, A. M.; Mortagy, A. K.
- Abstract
Increases in life expectancies mean that women are spending longer periods of their life in a hypo-oestrogenic state. A cross-sectional study was designed to assess the prevalence of postmenopausal symptoms among elderly Egyptian women in the geripausal phase. A sample of 400 community-dwelling elderly women aged > 65 years were recruited from 6 geriatric social clubs in Cairo. A full personal and medical history was taken from all participants. The menopause rating scale was applied to all participants after translation and linguistic validation in the Arabic language. The most prevalent postmenopausal symptoms were joint pain (90.3%), followed by sleep problems (84.0%) and physical and mental exhaustion (80.0%). A statistically significant positive correlation was found between total menopause rating scale score and age, duration of menopause and number of chronic diseases but not with age of menopause.
- Subjects
EGYPT; SYMPTOMS; AFFECT (Psychology); AGE distribution; ANALYSIS of variance; ANXIETY; BLADDER diseases; CHRONIC diseases; STATISTICAL correlation; MENTAL depression; DISEASES; HEART diseases; INTERVIEWING; JOINTS (Anatomy); PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; SLEEP disorders; T-test (Statistics); DISEASE prevalence; CROSS-sectional method; POSTMENOPAUSE; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; HOT flashes; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
1020-3397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26719/2012.18.3.213