Quality of life in heterosexual menopausal women
The indirect effect of sexual and marital satisfaction, menopause representations, and psychological morbidity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15217153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Graça Pereira (0000-0001-7987-2562, University of Minho, corresponding author), Ana Cristina Bernardo (0000-0002-9849-981X, University of Minho), Iolanda Conde Fernandes (0000-0002-7606-1999, University of Minho), Iolanda Fernandes (University of Minho), Ana C Almeida (0000-0001-8479-3236, Research Centre in Psychology (CIPsi), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1235-1253 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399332.2023.2245374 |
| PMID | 37669426 |
| OpenAlex | W4386448100 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Menopause may negatively impact Quality of Life (QoL). Our study used a cross-sectional design and research participants were 99 women in natural menopause. In our study, we analyzed the relationship between age at menopause onset, hormone therapy use, duration of couple relationship, menopause duration, psychological morbidity, marital satisfaction, menopause representations, and QoL following the Wilson and Cleary Health-Related QoL conceptual model. The authors found that negative representations, lower marital satisfaction, psychological morbidity, and shorter duration of menopause contributed to lower QoL. Moreover, the authors found that psychological morbidity and menopause representations (identity and control/cure dimensions) had an indirect effect between marital satisfaction and vasomotor, psychosocial, and sexual QoL. Also, we found that age at the onset of menopause showed a moderating effect in the final model. Future studies should replicate these results in a longitudinal design and analyze how the variables that showed a moderating role and indirect effects will function as moderators and mediators, respectively, over time
Menopause · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Quality of life (healthcare · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments · Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |