A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India

BACKGROUND: To study the menopause related symptoms affecting the quality of life (QOL) of perimenopausal women in order to understand the prevalence and plan for the interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred and nine women were evaluated for perimenopausal symptoms using a 29 item MENQOL qu...

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Autores principales: Nayak, Gayathry, Kamath, Asha, Kumar, Pratap, Rao, Anjali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23372322
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-7800.104456
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Kamath, Asha
Kumar, Pratap
Rao, Anjali
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description BACKGROUND: To study the menopause related symptoms affecting the quality of life (QOL) of perimenopausal women in order to understand the prevalence and plan for the interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred and nine women were evaluated for perimenopausal symptoms using a 29 item MENQOL questionnaire. RESULTS: The physical and psychosocial symptoms were found to be more prevalent than the vasomotor and sexual symptoms. CONCLUSION: Perimenopausal symptoms widely vary in women populations, accurate recording and understanding of which is essential to plan effective interventions to improve the QOL.
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spelling pubmed-35550292013-01-31 A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India Nayak, Gayathry Kamath, Asha Kumar, Pratap Rao, Anjali J Midlife Health Original Article BACKGROUND: To study the menopause related symptoms affecting the quality of life (QOL) of perimenopausal women in order to understand the prevalence and plan for the interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two hundred and nine women were evaluated for perimenopausal symptoms using a 29 item MENQOL questionnaire. RESULTS: The physical and psychosocial symptoms were found to be more prevalent than the vasomotor and sexual symptoms. CONCLUSION: Perimenopausal symptoms widely vary in women populations, accurate recording and understanding of which is essential to plan effective interventions to improve the QOL. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3555029/ /pubmed/23372322 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-7800.104456 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Mid-life Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nayak, Gayathry
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Kumar, Pratap
Rao, Anjali
A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India
title A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India
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title_fullStr A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India
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title_short A study of quality of life among perimenopausal women in selected coastal areas of Karnataka, India
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-7800.104456
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