Objective: The current study aims to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal Egyptian women and their effect on the quality of these women's lives.Study design: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a tertiary university hospital between January and December 2017. We enrolled 350 postmenopausal women aged 45-70 years. All women were interviewed using the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) questionnaire after translation into the Arabic language by a certified translation expert. The Mann-Whitney test and the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare MENQOL item scores. Results: Low backache was the most common complaint among the study participants (86%). The sexual domain imposed the greatest impact on quality of life (mean = 3.12 ± 1.66), followed by physical (mean = 3.18 ± 0.92), psychological (mean = 3.08 ± 0.98), and vasomotor (mean = 3.01 ± 1.78) domains. Moreover, we found a significant positive moderate correlation between body mass index (BMI) and the total score (r = 0.689, p < 0.001). Multivariable linear regression analysis found that the best-fitting predictors for the MENQOL score were age (p < 0.001), BMI (p < 0.001), and exercise (p < 0.001).Conclusions: Physical symptoms were the most prevalent symptoms in this study. In general, older women, housewives, hand workers, less physically active women, and those of low socioeconomic status had poor quality of life.
Objective: The current study aims to assess the prevalence of menopausal symptoms among postmenopausal Egyptian women and their effect on the quality of these women's lives.Study design: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a tertiary university hospital between January and December 2017. We enrolled 350 postmenopausal women aged 45-70 years. All women were interviewed using the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) questionnaire after translation into the Arabic language by a certified translation expert. The Mann-Whitney test and the Kruskal-Wallis test were used to compare MENQOL item scores. Results:Low backache was the most common complaint among the study participants (86%). The sexual domain imposed the greatest impact on quality of life (mean = 3.12 ± 1.66), followed by physical (mean = 3.18 ± 0.92), psychological (mean = 3.08 ± 0.98), and vasomotor (mean = 3.01 ± 1.78) domains. Moreover, we found a significant positive moderate correlation between body mass index (BMI) and the total score (r = 0.689, p < 0.001). Multivariable linear regression analysis found that the best-fitting predictors for the MENQOL score were age (p < 0.001), BMI (p < 0.001), and exercise (p < 0.001).Conclusions: Physical symptoms were the most prevalent symptoms in this study. In general, older women, housewives, hand workers, less physically active women, and those of low socioeconomic status had poor quality of life.
Authors: Frida Sara Rivera-Ochoa; Ixel Venecia González-Herrera; Mariano Zacarías-Flores; Elsa Correa-Muñoz; Víctor Manuel Mendoza-Núñez; Martha A Sánchez-Rodríguez Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2022-06-02 Impact factor: 4.614
Authors: Afsaneh Zeidabadi; Zahra Yazdanpanahi; Mohammad Hossain Dabbaghmanesh; Mohammad Resa Sasani; Masoumeh Emamghoreishi; Marzieh Akbarzadeh Journal: J Family Med Prim Care Date: 2020-02-28