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- Title
Care during Menopause: Comparison of a Women's Health Practice and Traditional Care.
- Authors
Ryan, Colleen A.; Ghali, William A.; Boss, Renee D.; Moskowitz, Mark A.; Freund, Karen M.
- Abstract
The article presents a study that compared women's health practice and general internal medicine practice on issues of care during menopause. Menopause was selected in the study because of the potential variability in physician and patient expectation, and diverse views on the roles of various preventive and therapeutic strategies. The study surveyed female patients and their physicians in a women's health practice and a general internal medicine practice, comparing (1) patient characteristics and health behaviours, (2) symptoms of and attitudes toward the menopause, and (3) physicians' awareness of their own patients' attitudes and health beliefs on menopausal issues. Three self-administered questionnaires were deigned for use in this study, one patient questionnaire and two physician questionnaires. The patient questionnaire contained questions to assess age, education and race. Findings of the study suggest that there are differences in the patients who seek primary care in women's health centers relative to those receiving care in traditional general internal medicine practices. The study does not provide evidence of differences in care related to menopause but rather suggests that physician gender may be associated with physicians' awareness of patients' menopausal attitudes.
- Subjects
MENOPAUSE; MEDICAL care; INTERNAL medicine; WOMEN'S health; WOMEN'S health services; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 1999, Vol 8, Issue 10, p1295
- ISSN
1524-6094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.1.1999.8.1295