[Association between climacteric symptoms and quality of life].

Ginecol Obstet Mex

Medicina Reproductivia, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad, Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia Luis Castelazo Ayala, México.

Published: December 2008

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study focused on validating the SUMEVA and Utian quality of life (UQoL) scales for evaluating symptoms and quality of life in women experiencing climacteric symptoms.
  • Conducted with 100 women aged 40 to 60, the results showed a negative correlation between the scores of the two scales, suggesting that as one scale's score increased, the other decreased.
  • The findings indicate that the SUMEVA scale can be used as an indirect measure of quality of life in climacteric women, despite lower scoring compared to UQoL.

Article Abstract

Background: Several scales have been developed for symptom and qualityof life evaluation in climacteric women. Utian quality of life scale (UQoL) as well as SUMEVA scale has been validated in climacteric women.

Objective: to find the correlation between SUMEVA and UQoL scales, and to determine if SUMEVA scale can be used as a quality of life scale.

Patients And Methods: 100 climacteric women between 40 and 60 years old were studied. Both scales were applied, UQoL (23 items) and SUMEVA (22 items). Statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, was used and Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated.

Results: Age mean was 47.4 +/- 5.6 years and BMI 29.9 +/- 21.0. Score of UQoL scale was 68.2 +/- 13.0 and that of SUMEVA was 47.1 +/- 30.3. A significant negative correlation between both scales was found (-0.323, p < 0.001).

Conclusions: SUMEVA scale allows to indirectly evaluating quality of life in climacteric patients.

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