Symptom clusters at midlife: A four-country comparison of checklist and qualitative responses

Menopause

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-144

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a   Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf ^b  

^a UMass ^*  (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Emotional symptoms; Menopause; Midlife; Somatic symptoms; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; CHECKLIST; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GROUPS BY AGE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MOROCCO; NERVOUSNESS; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PARESTHESIA; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPAIN; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; CHEST PAIN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MASSACHUSETTS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84856538904     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3182292af3     Document Type: Review

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