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MsFLASH participants' priorities for alleviating menopausal symptoms.
- Source :
- Climacteric; Dec2015, Vol. 18 Issue 6, p859-866, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- <bold>Objective: </bold>To describe self-reported menopausal symptom priorities and their association with demographics and other symptoms among participants in an intervention trial for vasomotor symptoms (VMS).<bold>Methods: </bold>Cross-sectional study embedded in the MsFLASH 02 trial, a three-by-two factorial design of yoga vs. exercise vs. usual activity and omega-3-fatty acid vs. placebo. At baseline, women (n = 354) completed hot flush diaries, a card sort task to prioritize symptoms they would most like to alleviate, and standardized questionnaires.<bold>Results: </bold>The most common symptom priorities were: VMS (n = 322), sleep (n = 191), concentration (n = 140), and fatigue (n = 116). In multivariate models, women who chose VMS as their top priority symptom (n = 210) reported significantly greater VMS severity (p = 0.004) and never smoking (p = 0.012), and women who chose sleep as their top priority symptom (n = 100) were more educated (p ≤ 0.001) and had worse sleep quality (p < 0.001). ROC curves identified sleep scale scores that were highly predictive of ranking sleep as a top priority symptom.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Among women entering an intervention trial for VMS and with relatively low prevalence of depression and anxiety, VMS was the priority symptom for treatment. A card sort may be a valid tool for quickly assessing symptom priorities in clinical practice and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SYMPTOMS
MENOPAUSE
SLEEP disorders
FATIGUE (Physiology)
COGNITIVE ability
CROSS-sectional method
MULTIVARIATE analysis
FACTORIAL experiment designs
THERAPEUTICS
THERAPEUTIC use of omega-3 fatty acids
COGNITION disorders treatment
HOT flashes treatment
ATTENTION
COMPARATIVE studies
EXERCISE
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
PATIENT satisfaction
PHARMACOKINETICS
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
YOGA
EVALUATION research
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
RECEIVER operating characteristic curves
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13697137
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Climacteric
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111243929
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/13697137.2015.1083003