Sanchez Ninive
School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Int J Womens Health. 2014 Jan 22;6:115-22. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S55748. eCollection 2014.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a major public health problem in the US. Worldwide, the public is largely unaware of the condition and health care providers do not seem to fully understand it. Research on PCOS has primarily focused on its etiology and clinical characteristics and less on the psychosocial aspects of human development associated with PCOS. This paper posits that a life course perspective provides a framework for further understanding the psychosocial experiences of women with PCOS and the contexts in which they live. The paper discusses how life course principles of human development, constraints on agency, interdependence of lives, time and place, and timing of events and experiences are relevant to the management of PCOS and prevention of its complications.
多囊卵巢综合征（PCOS）是美国一个主要的公共卫生问题。在全球范围内，公众对这种疾病基本上不了解，医疗保健人员似乎也没有完全理解它。对PCOS的研究主要集中在其病因和临床特征上，而较少关注与PCOS相关的人类发展的社会心理方面。本文认为，生命历程视角为进一步理解PCOS女性的社会心理经历及其生活背景提供了一个框架。本文讨论了人类发展的生命历程原则、对能动性的限制、生活的相互依存性、时间和地点，以及事件和经历的时机如何与PCOS的管理及其并发症的预防相关。
