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Quality of life in climacteric women assisted by primary health care

2019; Public Library of Science; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pone.0211617

1932-6203

Geraldo Edson Souza Guerra Júnior, Antônio Prates Caldeira, Fernanda Piana Santos Lima de Oliveira, Maria Fernanda Santos Figueiredo Brito, Kelma Dayana de Oliveira Silva Gerra, Carlos Eduardo Mendes D’Angelis, Luís Santos, Lucinéia de Pinho, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha, Daniela Araújo Veloso Popoff,

Health and Wellbeing Research

This cross-sectional study evaluated the quality of life and associated factors of climacteric women in Brazil using a random and representative sample of women assisted by primary care professionals. We investigated the variables using the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, MENQOL, whose mean scores were compared using Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests according to the sample characteristics. The variables associated with the outcomes in univariate analyses with a p≤0.2 were jointly evaluated using multiple linear regression. In this study, 849 women ranging in age from 40 to 65 years were evaluated. The predictors of poor quality of life in the vasomotor domain were women with severe climacteric symptoms (p<0.001), increased Body Mass Index (BMI) (p = 0.006), sleep (p = 0.022), and postmenopausal (p<0.001) alterations. For the psychosocial domain, the associated variables were severe climacteric symptoms (p<0.001) and sleep alterations (p<0.001); for the physical domain, the associated variables were severe climacteric symptoms (p<0.001), increased BMI (p<0.001), sleep (p<0.001), and postmenopausal (p<0.001) alterations. Severe climacteric symptoms, low sleep quality, increased BMI, and postmenopausal status were factors that were more associated with impairments in quality of life. With the increase in life expectancy, we suggest that greater attention should be paid to women's quality of life associated with climacteric symptoms.