TY - JOUR
TI - Quality of life and psychological symptoms in Greek postmenopausal
women: Association with hormone therapy
AU - Koundi, Kalliopi L.
AU - Christodoulakos, George E.
AU - Lambrinoudaki,
AU - Irene V.
AU - Zervas, Joannis M.
AU - Spyropoulou, Areti
AU - Fexi,
AU - Panagiota
AU - Sakkas, Pavlos N.
AU - Soldatos, Constantinos R. and
AU - Creatsas, George C.
JO - Gynecological Endocrinology
PY - 2006
VL - 22
TODO - 12
SP - 660-668
PB - TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD LONDON
SN - 0951-3590, 1473-0766
TODO - 10.1080/09513590601010557
TODO - quality of life; psychological symptoms; menopause; hormone therapy
TODO - Quality of life (QoL) in menopause is influenced by many parameters,
including vasomotor symptoms, psychological status and culture. The aim
of the present study was to examine the association of hormone therapy
(HT) with QoL and psychological symptoms in Greek postmenopausal women.
The study assessed 216 postmenopausal women (mean age 54.5 years)
attending a university menopause clinic in Greece. Fifty-three were
users of HT and 163 were not. QoL was evaluated by the Utian Quality of
Life Scale (UQOL) and psychological symptoms were assessed by the
Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R). Women on HT were younger and more
educated than women not using HT. Adjusting the analysis for the women’s
characteristics, HT users had better total UQOL scores than non-users (p
< 0.05). Marital status and education had independent effects on QoL,
with married and more educated women scoring higher (p < 0.05).
Assessment of psychological symptomatology, after adjustment for
sociodemographic variables across the different dimensions, revealed
that HT users had better SCL-90-R scores than non-users for
obsessionality, interpersonal sensitivity and for the general index (p <
0.05). Concluding, even though the impact of sociodemographic and
lifestyle variables must be factored into the assessment of QoL, HT use
is independently related to an improvement in the total score and in
most domains of QoL, and has a significant positive effect on many
aspects of psychological well-being in Greek postmenopausal women.
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