Som Nivedita, Ray Subha
Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
Menopause Int. 2012 Sep;18(3):99-105. doi: 10.1258/mi.2012.011107. Epub 2012 Jul 3.
To find out the association of menopause-specific quality of life of women with both working status and duration of postmenopausal years.
We conducted a cross-sectional study on 250 postmenopausal women belonging to Bengali-speaking Hindu ethnic group, aged 47-62 years in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The participants were literate, living in wedlock with at least one surviving child, attained natural menopause at least two years ago and have never taken hormone replacement treatment. Menopause-specific quality of life was measured using a self-administered standard questionnaire (Menopause-Specific Quality of Life questionnaire, or MENQOL). MENQOL consisted of 29 menopausal symptoms (items) that are grouped under four domains. Additional information on sociodemographic aspect and reproductive history of the participants were collected using a pretested questionnaire. Main outcome measures Both bivariate and multivariate analyses showed that menopause-specific quality of life decreases with the increase in duration of postmenopausal years. Although bivariate analysis demonstrated that working women had a better menopause-specific quality of life than their non-working counterpart, multivariate linear regression model did not corroborate to this finding.
Duration of postmenopausal years had a significant association with menopause-specific quality of life of women.
探究绝经后女性特定生活质量与工作状态及绝经年限之间的关联。
我们对印度西孟加拉邦加尔各答市250名讲孟加拉语的印度教绝经后女性进行了一项横断面研究，她们年龄在47至62岁之间。参与者识字，与至少一个存活子女婚姻存续，至少在两年前自然绝经且从未接受过激素替代治疗。使用一份自我管理的标准问卷（绝经后特定生活质量问卷，即MENQOL）来测量绝经后特定生活质量。MENQOL由29种绝经症状（条目）组成，这些症状分为四个领域。使用一份经过预测试的问卷收集参与者社会人口学方面和生殖史的其他信息。主要结局指标 双变量和多变量分析均显示，绝经后特定生活质量随着绝经年限的增加而下降。尽管双变量分析表明职业女性的绝经后特定生活质量优于非职业女性，但多变量线性回归模型并未证实这一发现。
绝经年限与绝经后女性特定生活质量存在显著关联。
