Women's mid-life health experiences in urban UK: An international comparison

Climacteric

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 278-288

  Ward, T ^a   Scheid, V ^a   Tuffrey, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Cross sectional survey; International; Logistic regression; London; Menopause; Vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CLIMACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; JAPAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; POSTAL MAIL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGE FACTORS; ARTHRALGIA; CANADA; CHINA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77951779067     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13697130903197479     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Avis NE, Brockwell S, Colvin A. A universal menopausal syndrome? Am J Med 2005;118:37-46
2. Lock M. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993
3. Garai J, Vilagi S, Repasy I, Koppan M, Bodis J. Seasonal onset of menopause? Hum Reprod 2004;19: 1666-1667
4. Haimov-Kochman R, Barak-Glantz E, Ein-Mor E, et al. Duration not severity of the climacteric syndrome predicts resumption of hormone therapy after discontinuation: a prospective cohort study. Hum Reprod 2006;21: 2450-2454 (Pubitemid 44530627)
5. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Consensus Statement. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Hormone Replacement Therapy: Accessed 1 March 2004 http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/esd/ consensus/hrt. 2003
6. Kuh D, Hardy R. Women's health in midlife: findings from a British birth cohort study. J Br Menopause Soc 2003;9: 55-60
7. Hunter MS. The Women's Health Questionnaire: a measure of mid-aged women's perceptions of their emotional and physical health. Psychol Health 1992;7: 45-54
8. Greene JG. The cross-sectional legacy: an introduction to longitudinal studies of the climacteric. Maturitas 1992;14: 95-101
9. Bungay GT, Vessey MP, McPherson CK. Study of symptoms in middle life with special reference to the menopause. BMJ 1980;281:181-183
10. Kumari M, Stafford M, Marmot M. The menopausal transition was associated in a prospective study with decreased health functioning in women who report menopausal symptoms. J Clin Epidemiol 2005;58: 719-727
11. Gupta P, Sturdee DW, Hunter MS. Mid-age health in women from the Indian subcontinent (MAHWIS): general health and the experience of menopause in women. Climacteric 2006;9:13-22
12. Liao K, Hunter MS, White P. Beliefs about menopause of general practitioners and mid-aged women. Fam Pract 1994;11:408-412
13. McKinlay SM, McKinlay JB. Selected studies of the menopause: a methodological critique. J Biosoc Sci 1973;5:533-555
14. Greene JG. A factor analytic study of climacteric symptoms. J Psychosom Res 1976;20:425-430
15. Hardy R, Kuh D. Change in psychological and vasomotor symptom reporting during the menopause. Social Sci Med 2002;55:1975-1988
16. Kuh D, Hardy R, Rodgers B, Wadsworth MEJ. Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife. Social Sci Med 2002;55:1957-1973
17. Sallam H, Galal AF, Rashed A. Menopause in Egypt: past and present perspectives. Climacteric 2006;9:421-429
18. Lock M. Symptom reporting at menopause: a review of cross-cultural findings. J Br Menopause Soc 2002;8: 132-136
19. Wray S. Women making sense of midlife: ethnic and cultural diversity. J Aging Studies 2007;21:31-42
20. Anderson D, Yoshizawa T, Gollschewski S, Atogami F, Courtney M. Menopause in Australia and Japan: effects of country of residence on menopausal status and menopausal symptoms. Climacteric 2004;7:165-174
21. Lee C, Mishra G, Kuh D. Country of birth, country of residence, and menopausal transitions and symptoms: British birth cohort and Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Aust NZ J Public Health 2004;28: 144-151
22. Avis NE, Stellato R, Crawford S, et al. Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups. Soc Sci Med 2001;52:345-356
23. Melby MK, Lock M, Kaufert P. Culture and symptom reporting at menopause. Hum Reprod Update 2005;11: 495-512
24. Freeman EW, Sherif K. Global incidence of vasomotor symptoms. Climacteric 2007;10:197-214
25. Kaufert P, Syrotuik J. Symptom reporting at the menopause. Soc Sci Med 1981;184:173-184
26. Greenlick M, Pope C. The use of patient records and survey data to develop measures of health status. Health Care Research: A Symposium, pp 56-71. University of Calgary, 1974
27. Dillman DA. Mail and Telephone Surveys: the Total Design Method. New York: John Wiley, 1978
28. Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/ communities/englishindices
29. McKinlay S, McKinlay J. Aging in a 'healthy' population. Soc Sci Med 1986;23:531-535
30. Kaufert P. Women and their health in the middle years: a Manitoba project. Soc Sci Med 1984;18:279-281
31. Shea JL. Parsing the ageing Asian woman: symptom results from the China study of midlife women. Maturitas 2006;55:36-50
32. Bland JM. An Introduction to Medical Statistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
33. Hahn PM, Wong J, Reid RL. Menopause-like hot flushes reported in women of reproductive age. Fertil Steril 1998;70:913-918
34. Xu J, Bartoces M, Neale AV, et al. Natural history of menopause symptoms in primary care patients: a MetroNet study. J Am Board Fam Pract 2005;18:374-382
35. Hunter M. The South-East England longitudinal study of the climacteric and postmenopause. Maturitas 1992;14: 117-126
36. Flint M, Kronenberg F, Utian WH. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Menopause. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol 592. New York Academy of Science, 1995
37. Lock M, Kaufert P. Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging. Am J Hum Biol 2001;13:494-504
38. Eun-Ok IM, Meleis AI, Lee KA. Symptom experience during menopausal transition: low income Korean immigrant women. Women Health 1999;29:53-67
39. Kaufert P. Myth and the menopause. Sociol Health Illness 1982;4:141-166
40. Mishra G, Lee C, Brown W, Dobson A. Menopausal transitions, symptoms and country of birth: the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Aust NZ J Public Health 2002;26:563-570
41. Freeman EW, Sherif K. Prevalence of hot flushes and night sweats around the world: a systematic review. Climacteric 2007;10:197-214
42. Gold EB, Block G, Crawford S, et al. Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Am J Epidemiol 2004;159:1189-1199
43. Gold EB, Sternfeld B, Kelsey JL, et al. Relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to symptoms in a multi-racial/ethnic population of women 40-55 years of age. Am J Epidemiol 2000;152:463-473
44. Obermeyer CM, Reher D, Saliba M. Symptoms, menopause status, and country differences: a comparative analysis from DAMES. Menopause 2007;14:788-797
45. Avis NE, Assmann SF, Kravitz HM, Ganz PA, Ory M. Quality of life in diverse groups of midlife women: assessing the influence of menopause, health status and psychosocial and demographic factors. Qual Life Res 2004;13:933-946
46. Melby MK. Vasomotor symptom prevalence and language of menopause in Japan. Menopause 2005;12: 250-257
47. Shea JL. Women's midlife symptom-reporting in China: cross-cultural analysis. Am J Hum Biol 2006;18: 219-222
48. Melby MK, Lock M, Kaufert P. Culture and symptom reporting at menopause. Hum Reprod Update 2005;11: 495-512
49. Wadsworth G. Hearing midlife voices: assessing different methods for researching women's experiences of menopause and midlife. Women's Studies Int Forum 2000;23: 645-654
50. Mishra G, Kuh D. Perceived change in quality of life during the menopause. Soc Sci Med 2005;62:93-102
51. Limpaphayom KK, Darmasetiawan MS, Hussain RI, Burriss SW, Holinka CF, Ausmanas MK. Differential prevalence of quality-of-life categories (domains) in Asian women and changes after therapy with three doses of conjugated estrogens/medroxyprogesterone acetate: the Pan-Asia Menopause (PAM) study. Climacteric 2006;9: 204-214
52. Avis NE, Kaufert PA, Lock M, McKinlay SM, Vass K. The evolution of menopausal symptoms. Bailliere's Clin Endocrinol Metab 1993;7:17-32