Sexual and psychological symptoms in the climacteric years

  • AMORE, Mario
  • Di Donato P.
  • Berti A.
  • Palareti A.
  • Chirico C.
  • Papalini A.
  • Zucchini S.
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Publication date
January 2007
Publisher
Elsevier BV

Abstract

Objectives: To provide epidemiological data about psychological and sexual functioning during menopausal transition in a large Italian non-clinical sample, and to investigate their correlation with life events. Methods: The study design was a cross-sectional postal survey of a menopausal sample of women recruited from the General Registry Office in Ferrara's province. The sample was composed of four thousand and seventy-three women; they were sent a questionnaire designed on the basis of the Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ). Together with the WHQ, the subjects filled out a personal file to define social status, cultural level, family's characteristics, recent menstrual cycles, gynaecological history and operations, drug assumption, li...

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