Rousseau M E, McCool W F
Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0740, USA.
Health Care Women Int. 1997 May-Jun;18(3):233-50. doi: 10.1080/07399339709516278.
Menopause and its effects on women's health status and needs have only recently received the increased attention of scholars and clinicians that many feel is long overdue. However, one major area of neglect that continues today regards the climacteric in minority populations within the United States, including the largest minority group, African Americans. This review summarizes issues that have potentially limited the amount of information available regarding menopause in African Americans. These issues include differing perspectives on the climacteric within research and clinical arenas, the difficulty of studying race as a variable in scholarly investigations, and methodological factors that have led to underrepresentation of minorities in studies of menopause. General considerations, as well as specific suggestions, for research questions when investigating the climacteric experiences of African American women are offered.
绝经及其对女性健康状况和需求的影响，直到最近才得到学者和临床医生越来越多的关注，许多人认为这种关注早就该有了。然而，时至今日仍被忽视的一个主要领域是美国少数族裔人群的更年期问题，其中包括最大的少数族裔群体非裔美国人。这篇综述总结了一些可能限制了有关非裔美国人更年期可用信息量的问题。这些问题包括研究和临床领域对更年期的不同观点、在学术研究中将种族作为一个变量进行研究的困难，以及导致少数族裔在更年期研究中代表性不足的方法学因素。本文还针对研究非裔美国女性更年期经历时的研究问题提供了一般性考虑以及具体建议。
