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Association between menopausal symptoms and relationship distress
- Source :
- Maturitas. 130
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- To determine the association between relationship distress and menopausal symptoms.A retrospective analysis was conducted of questionnaires completed by women 40-65 years of age seeking menopause or sexual health consultation between May, 2015 and May, 2017.Associations between menopausal symptoms assessed using the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) and relationship distress measured on the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS) were evaluated with two-sample t-tests. Linear regression was used to assess associations after adjusting for potential confounders.The sample of 1884 women averaged 53 years of age (SD = 6.1); most were white (95%), employed (66%), married (90%), and well-educated (≥ college graduate, 64%). Women reporting no relationship distress (KMSS ≥ 17) had less severe menopausal symptoms overall compared with women reporting relationship distress (total MRS score 13.1 vs 16.0, P 0.001), with similar findings in each MRS domain. In multivariable analyses, this relationship persisted for total MRS scores and for psychological symptoms among women with no relationship distress, who scored an estimated 1.15 points (95% CI 0.52-1.78) lower on the total MRS and 0.82 points (95% CI 0.53-1.10) lower in the psychological symptom.The absence of relationship distress was associated with less severe menopausal symptoms, particularly in the psychological domain, in women presenting to a women's health clinic. Given the cross = sectional design, the direction of the relationship is unknown.
- Subjects :
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Relationship distress
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Rating scale
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
030212 general & internal medicine
Association (psychology)
Reproductive health
Retrospective Studies
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Confounding
Outcome measures
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Menopause
Cross-Sectional Studies
Marital satisfaction
Female
Symptom Assessment
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18734111
- Volume :
- 130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Maturitas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cae84d2922f55446a1100722a154b767