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Factors associated with a clinically relevant reduction in menopausal symptoms of a standardized acupuncture approach for women with bothersome menopausal symptoms.
- Source :
- BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies; 1/14/2021, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p1-7, 7p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Background: Little is known about factors associated with a clinically relevant reduction in menopausal symptoms through a brief acupuncture approach for women with moderate-to-severe menopausal symptoms. Methods: Post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial where participants were allocated to early versus late standardized acupuncture. Both the early group and the late group are included in this study. The late group got an identical intervention parallel staged by 6 weeks. By means of the relative importance, the effect was evaluated for both early versus late women with a 6-week follow-up. We included four symptom subscales from the validated MenoScores Questionnaire: hot flushes, day and night sweats, general sweating, menopausal-specific sleeping problems, as well as an overall score, which is the sum of the four outcomes in the analysis. Results: 67 women with moderate to severe menopausal symptoms were included of whom 52 (77.6%) experienced a clinically relevant reduction in any of the four surveyed symptom subscales or overall score. 48 (71.6%) women experienced a clinically relevant reduction in any of the vasomotor symptom subscales: hot flushes, day and night sweats, general sweating. Women with vocational education were most likely to experience improvement compared to women with higher education. Beyond education, other factors of some importance for a clinically relevant reduction were no alcohol consumption, two or more births and urinary incontinence. Conclusions: Level of education was the most consistent factor associated with improvement. Beyond education, other factors of some importance were no alcohol consumption, two or more births and urinary incontinence. Trial registration: This study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov at April 21, 2016. The registration number is NCT02746497. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACUPUNCTURE
ALCOHOLISM
EVALUATION of medical care
PERSPIRATION
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SLEEP disorders
STATISTICS
URINARY incontinence
WOMEN'S health
PERIMENOPAUSE
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
EDUCATIONAL attainment
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
RELATIVE medical risk
PARITY (Obstetrics)
HOT flashes
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26627671
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148116253
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-021-03208-2