Symptom groupings at midlife: Cross-cultural variation and association with job, home, and life change

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 798-807

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a   Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^b   Saliba, Matilda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Factor analyses; Lebanon; Menopause; Morocco; Spain; Symptoms; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; JOB CHANGE; LEBANON; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENTAL DISEASE; MOROCCO; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34447321035     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31804f8175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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