Quality of Life Among Natural Menopausal Women and Early Surgical Menopausal Women: A Study from Greece.

IF 2.4 Q1 NURSING Nursing Reports Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI:10.3390/nursrep14040250

Fotini Kavga, Anastasia Bothou, Christina Nanou, Giannoula Kyrkou, Victoria Vivilaki, Anna Deltsidou

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Background/objectives: The general health and well-being of middle-aged women have become a major public health issue worldwide. More than 80% of women experience physical or psychological symptoms during the transition to menopause. This study aims to compare the effect of menopause on quality of life (QOL) in two groups of women undergoing natural and surgical menopause.

Methods: The sample consisted of 100 female patients from a Greek hospital in Athens, with an average age of 44.5 years, half of whom had natural menopause, while the remaining women had iatrogenic menopause after surgery for any reason other than malignancy. A questionnaire related to the QOL in menopause was used to collect the data. The scale used to evaluate the QOL of women is the Utian QOL Scale (UQOL), translated into Greek.

Results: From the analysis of the data, it was found that there is no statistically significant difference between the QOL of women with natural and surgical menopause. Menopausal symptoms, psychosocial and sexual health, as well as the general health of the two groups, showed similar rates (OR: 63.7-66.6, p = 0.248). The only statistically significant difference found was in weight gain, with natural menopausal women having greater weight gain compared to surgically menopausal women (p = 0.041).

Conclusions: Menopausal symptoms are associated with a decrease in women's QOL. However, QOL is affected regardless of the type of menopause transition. This study was not registered.

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自然绝经妇女和早期手术绝经妇女的生活质量：希腊的一项研究。

背景/目的：中年妇女的总体健康和福祉已成为全世界的一个主要公共卫生问题。超过 80% 的妇女在向更年期过渡期间会出现生理或心理症状。本研究旨在比较自然绝经和手术绝经两组妇女绝经对生活质量（QOL）的影响：样本由雅典一家希腊医院的 100 名女性患者组成，平均年龄为 44.5 岁，其中半数为自然绝经，其余女性则是因恶性肿瘤以外的任何原因接受手术后先天性绝经。研究人员使用了一份与绝经期 QOL 相关的问卷来收集数据。用于评估妇女 QOL 的量表是乌蒂安 QOL 量表（UQOL），已翻译成希腊文：从数据分析中发现，自然绝经和手术绝经妇女的 QOL 在统计学上没有显著差异。两组妇女的更年期症状、社会心理和性健康以及总体健康状况显示出相似的比率（OR：63.7-66.6，P = 0.248）。唯一有统计学意义的差异是体重增加，自然绝经妇女的体重增加幅度大于手术绝经妇女（p = 0.041）：结论：更年期症状与妇女生活质量下降有关。结论：更年期症状与妇女的 QOL 下降有关，但无论更年期过渡类型如何，QOL 都会受到影响。本研究未注册。

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