Cargando…
Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women
Numerous studies show that changes occurring in a woman’s organism during menopause may lower her quality of life. This study involved 630 healthy postmenopausal women from Poland. Its purpose was to assess their quality of life in relation to socio-demographic variables, medical data and personalit...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2014
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24972032 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110706692 |
_version_ | 1782328352493797376 |
---|---|
author | Wieder-Huszla, Sylwia Szkup, Małgorzata Jurczak, Anna Samochowiec, Agnieszka Samochowiec, Jerzy Stanisławska, Marzanna Rotter, Iwona Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta |
author_facet | Wieder-Huszla, Sylwia Szkup, Małgorzata Jurczak, Anna Samochowiec, Agnieszka Samochowiec, Jerzy Stanisławska, Marzanna Rotter, Iwona Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta |
author_sort | Wieder-Huszla, Sylwia |
collection | PubMed |
description | Numerous studies show that changes occurring in a woman’s organism during menopause may lower her quality of life. This study involved 630 healthy postmenopausal women from Poland. Its purpose was to assess their quality of life in relation to socio-demographic variables, medical data and personality profiles. The authors used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to assess quality of life, the NEO-Five Factor Inventory to measure personality traits, and the Blatt-Kupperman Menopausal Index to estimate severity of climacteric symptoms. The study demonstrated significant relationships between quality of life and variables such as: age, education, employment status, and the use of menopausal hormone therapy. An analysis of personality traits revealed correlations between the openness to experience scores and the quality of life within physical functioning, vitality, and mental health. Neuroticism, agreeableness and extroversion significantly correlated with all quality of life domains. Conclusions: (1) Age, education and employment status have significant effects on the selected quality of life domains after menopause. (2) Quality of life within the general health domain was assessed lower by MHT-users (Menopausal hormone theraphy (MHT)). (3) Health-related quality of life is also influenced by personality traits, which are relatively stable throughout life. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-4113838 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2014 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-41138382014-07-29 Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women Wieder-Huszla, Sylwia Szkup, Małgorzata Jurczak, Anna Samochowiec, Agnieszka Samochowiec, Jerzy Stanisławska, Marzanna Rotter, Iwona Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Numerous studies show that changes occurring in a woman’s organism during menopause may lower her quality of life. This study involved 630 healthy postmenopausal women from Poland. Its purpose was to assess their quality of life in relation to socio-demographic variables, medical data and personality profiles. The authors used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to assess quality of life, the NEO-Five Factor Inventory to measure personality traits, and the Blatt-Kupperman Menopausal Index to estimate severity of climacteric symptoms. The study demonstrated significant relationships between quality of life and variables such as: age, education, employment status, and the use of menopausal hormone therapy. An analysis of personality traits revealed correlations between the openness to experience scores and the quality of life within physical functioning, vitality, and mental health. Neuroticism, agreeableness and extroversion significantly correlated with all quality of life domains. Conclusions: (1) Age, education and employment status have significant effects on the selected quality of life domains after menopause. (2) Quality of life within the general health domain was assessed lower by MHT-users (Menopausal hormone theraphy (MHT)). (3) Health-related quality of life is also influenced by personality traits, which are relatively stable throughout life. MDPI 2014-06-26 2014-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4113838/ /pubmed/24972032 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110706692 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wieder-Huszla, Sylwia Szkup, Małgorzata Jurczak, Anna Samochowiec, Agnieszka Samochowiec, Jerzy Stanisławska, Marzanna Rotter, Iwona Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title | Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title_full | Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title_fullStr | Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title_short | Effects of Socio-Demographic, Personality and Medical Factors on Quality of Life of Postmenopausal Women |
title_sort | effects of socio-demographic, personality and medical factors on quality of life of postmenopausal women |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24972032 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110706692 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT wiederhuszlasylwia effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT szkupmałgorzata effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT jurczakanna effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT samochowiecagnieszka effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT samochowiecjerzy effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT stanisławskamarzanna effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT rotteriwona effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT karakiewiczbeata effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen AT grochanselzbieta effectsofsociodemographicpersonalityandmedicalfactorsonqualityoflifeofpostmenopausalwomen |