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Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of menopausal Emirati women aged 40–64 years and determine its relationship with their sociodemographic characteristics. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 70 Emirati women using multistage stratified clustered random sampling. The participants were interviewed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire comprising sociodemographic variables, reproductive characteristics, and the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) questionnaire. The most common symptom among the study participants was ‘aching in the muscles’. The participants had a moderate level of bothersome symptoms; in addition, vasomotor symptoms were reported by 61%, while sexual symptoms were only reported by one-third of the participants. There were no significant differences between the menopausal status in any of the four domains of the MENQOL questionnaire. Additionally, there were no significant differences between the mean scores of the four MENQOL domains and all predictors. This study highlights the importance of educating women about menopause and its symptoms.
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ISSN
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
17
Issue
1
First Page
40
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Keywords
Emirati women, Menopause, MENQOL, Quality of life, Vasomotor
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Smail, Linda; Jassim, Ghufran; and Shakil, Anam, "Menopause-specific quality of life among emirati women" (2020). All Works. 2367.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/2367
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Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series