Im Eun-Ok, Ko Young, Chee Wonshik
a School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
Health Care Women Int. 2014 May;35(5):549-65. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2013.815752. Epub 2013 Aug 27.
Our purpose for this study was to identify clusters of midlife women by menopausal symptoms in a multiethnic sample, and to determine ethnic differences in the clusters. This was a secondary analysis of data from 501 women in a larger Internet study on menopausal symptom experiences. The data were analyzed using factor analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and multinominal logistic analysis. A three cluster solution was adopted (F = 575.71, p <.01). The clusters differed significantly in the country of birth and ethnicity (p <.05). Only in the low symptomatic cluster were there significant ethnic differences in menopausal symptoms.
我们开展这项研究的目的是,在一个多民族样本中,依据更年期症状对中年女性进行聚类,并确定这些聚类中的种族差异。这是对一项关于更年期症状体验的大型互联网研究中501名女性的数据进行的二次分析。数据采用因子分析、层次聚类分析和多项逻辑分析进行分析。采用了三类聚类方案(F = 575.71,p <.01)。这些聚类在出生国家和种族方面存在显著差异(p <.05)。仅在低症状聚类中,更年期症状存在显著的种族差异。