[Peri- and postmenopausal changes--body awareness, sexuality, and self- image of the middle-aged and older woman].

Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION, METHODS: For the first time a study has been made, in a German urban population, of sexuality, body awareness and self-image of women between 50 and 82 years. A special anonymous questionnaire was designed by female gynaecologists and psychologists for this cross-sectional study in Munich. It focuses on body awareness, self imagery, sexual activity and psychological and physiological sexual feeling in their biographic context.