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Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women
To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using multistage stratified clustered random sampling. The parti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31861588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010040 |
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author | Smail, Linda Jassim, Ghufran Shakil, Anam |
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description | To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using multistage stratified clustered random sampling. The participants were interviewed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire comprising sociodemographic variables, reproductive characteristics, and the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) questionnaire. The most common symptom among the study participants was ‘aching in the muscles’. The participants had a moderate level of bothersome symptoms; in addition, vasomotor symptoms were reported by 61%, while sexual symptoms were only reported by one-third of the participants. There were no significant differences between the menopausal status in any of the four domains of the MENQOL questionnaire. Additionally, there were no significant differences between the mean scores of the four MENQOL domains and all predictors. This study highlights the importance of educating women about menopause and its symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-69819702020-02-07 Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women Smail, Linda Jassim, Ghufran Shakil, Anam Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using multistage stratified clustered random sampling. The participants were interviewed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire comprising sociodemographic variables, reproductive characteristics, and the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) questionnaire. The most common symptom among the study participants was ‘aching in the muscles’. The participants had a moderate level of bothersome symptoms; in addition, vasomotor symptoms were reported by 61%, while sexual symptoms were only reported by one-third of the participants. There were no significant differences between the menopausal status in any of the four domains of the MENQOL questionnaire. Additionally, there were no significant differences between the mean scores of the four MENQOL domains and all predictors. This study highlights the importance of educating women about menopause and its symptoms. MDPI 2019-12-19 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6981970/ /pubmed/31861588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010040 Text en © 2019 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 (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Smail, Linda Jassim, Ghufran Shakil, Anam Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title | Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title_full | Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title_fullStr | Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title_short | Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Emirati Women |
title_sort | menopause-specific quality of life among emirati women |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31861588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010040 |
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