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Life Satisfaction and Morbidity among Postmenopausal Women

OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between morbidity and global life satisfaction in postmenopausal women taking into account type and number of diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 11,084 women (age range 57–66 years) from a population-based cohort of Finnish women (OSTPRE Study) respond...

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Autores principales: Lukkala, Pyry S., Honkanen, Risto J., Rauma, Päivi H., Williams, Lana J., Quirk, Shae E., Kröger, Heikki, Koivumaa-Honkanen, Heli
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4723073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26799838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147521
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author Lukkala, Pyry S.
Honkanen, Risto J.
Rauma, Päivi H.
Williams, Lana J.
Quirk, Shae E.
Kröger, Heikki
Koivumaa-Honkanen, Heli
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Honkanen, Risto J.
Rauma, Päivi H.
Williams, Lana J.
Quirk, Shae E.
Kröger, Heikki
Koivumaa-Honkanen, Heli
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description OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between morbidity and global life satisfaction in postmenopausal women taking into account type and number of diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 11,084 women (age range 57–66 years) from a population-based cohort of Finnish women (OSTPRE Study) responded to a postal enquiry in 1999. Life satisfaction was measured with a 4-item scale. Self-reported diseases diagnosed by a physician and categorized according to ICD-10 main classes were used as a measure of morbidity. Enquiry data on health and lifestyle were used as covariates in the multivariate logistic models. RESULTS: Morbidity was strongly associated with life dissatisfaction. Every additional disease increased the risk of life dissatisfaction by 21.1% (p < .001). The risk of dissatisfaction was strongest among women with mental disorders (OR = 5.26; 95%CI 3.84–7.20) and neurological disorders (OR = 3.62; 95%CI 2.60–5.02) compared to the healthy (each p < .001). Smoking, physical inactivity and marital status were also associated with life dissatisfaction (each p < .001) but their introduction to the multivariate model did not attenuate the pattern of associations. CONCLUSIONS: Morbidity and life dissatisfaction have a disease-specific and dose-dependent relationship. Even if women with mental and neurological disorders have the highest risk for life dissatisfaction, monitoring life satisfaction among aging women regardless of disorders should be undertaken in order to intervene the joint adverse effects of poor health and poor well-being.
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spelling pubmed-47230732016-01-30 Life Satisfaction and Morbidity among Postmenopausal Women Lukkala, Pyry S. Honkanen, Risto J. Rauma, Päivi H. Williams, Lana J. Quirk, Shae E. Kröger, Heikki Koivumaa-Honkanen, Heli PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between morbidity and global life satisfaction in postmenopausal women taking into account type and number of diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 11,084 women (age range 57–66 years) from a population-based cohort of Finnish women (OSTPRE Study) responded to a postal enquiry in 1999. Life satisfaction was measured with a 4-item scale. Self-reported diseases diagnosed by a physician and categorized according to ICD-10 main classes were used as a measure of morbidity. Enquiry data on health and lifestyle were used as covariates in the multivariate logistic models. RESULTS: Morbidity was strongly associated with life dissatisfaction. Every additional disease increased the risk of life dissatisfaction by 21.1% (p < .001). The risk of dissatisfaction was strongest among women with mental disorders (OR = 5.26; 95%CI 3.84–7.20) and neurological disorders (OR = 3.62; 95%CI 2.60–5.02) compared to the healthy (each p < .001). Smoking, physical inactivity and marital status were also associated with life dissatisfaction (each p < .001) but their introduction to the multivariate model did not attenuate the pattern of associations. CONCLUSIONS: Morbidity and life dissatisfaction have a disease-specific and dose-dependent relationship. Even if women with mental and neurological disorders have the highest risk for life dissatisfaction, monitoring life satisfaction among aging women regardless of disorders should be undertaken in order to intervene the joint adverse effects of poor health and poor well-being. Public Library of Science 2016-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4723073/ /pubmed/26799838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147521 Text en © 2016 Lukkala et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Quirk, Shae E.
Kröger, Heikki
Koivumaa-Honkanen, Heli
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title_short Life Satisfaction and Morbidity among Postmenopausal Women
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4723073/
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