Dasgupta Doyel, Pal Baidyanath, Ray Subha
a Department of Anthropology , University of Calcutta , Kolkata , West Bengal , India.
b Biological Anthropology Unit , Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata , West Bengal , India.
J Women Aging. 2016;28(5):363-71. doi: 10.1080/08952841.2015.1018026. Epub 2016 Apr 19.
We attempted to find out how menopausal problems cluster with each other. The study was conducted among a group of women belonging to a Bengali-speaking Hindu ethnic group of West Bengal, a state located in Eastern India. We recruited 1,400 participants for the study. Information on sociodemographic aspects and menopausal problems were collected from these participants with the help of a pretested questionnaire. Results of cluster analysis showed that vasomotor, vaginal, and urinary problems cluster together, separately from physical and psychosomatic problems.