Comparison of depression, anxiety, quality of life, vitality and mental health between premenopausal and postmenopausal women

Jafari, Forough; Hadizadeh, M.H.; Zabihi, Reza; Ganji, Kamran

doi:10.3109/13697137.2014.905528

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“…Premenopausal woman with low levels of anxiety can be more susceptible to increased levels of anxiety during and after menopause transition [22]. Consistent with that findings, Jafari et al, 2014 [23], found that post-menopausal women, between the ages of 45 and 55, have high levels of anxiety compared to premenopausal women between 35 and 45.…”

Section: Anxiety Disorders and Mood Swings Associated With Natural Ormentioning

confidence: 73%

“…On the other hand, a close negative relation between the severity of anxiety and depression symptoms and quality of life has been reported. In this sense, post-menopausal women with a low quality of life showed a higher index of anxiety and symptoms of depression than premenopausal women with a good quality of life [23].…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Symptoms of anxiety, irritability, depression, bluntness, mnesic disease, impairment of general capacity, and sleep disorders are the most frequent motives in women with perimenopause to attend to medical consultation [18]. It is common that women that refer to psychological discomfort in medical consultation during the whole menopause span are also the women that show less self-esteem and a low personal satisfaction [23]. Additionally, there is a relation between hormone levels and psychological wellbeing in menopausal women.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Anxiety in Natural and Surgical Menopause — Physiologic and Therapeutic Bases

Rodríguez‐Landa¹,

Puga-Olguín²,

JesúsGermán-Ponciano³

et al. 2015

A Fresh Look at Anxiety Disorders

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Generalized anxiety disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, affecting a high percentage of human beings around the world. This emotional disorder possesses marked gender differences and occurs more often in women than in men, in a proportion of . Accompanying the reproductive cycle of women are significant fluctuations in plasma and brain steroid hormone concentrations, including oestradiol, progesterone, and allopregnanolone, among others. These hormonal changes are related to some illnesses and with the development of anxiety and mood swings occurring in the premenstrual and postpartum period, and particularly during the menopause. Menopause is a clinical term used to indicate the cessation of the woman's reproductive ability that occurs naturally, but also may be surgically induced by bilateral oophorectomy, with or without the removal of the Fallopian tubes and uterus. Natural menopause includes specific periods related to the physiological and hormonal changes produced by ovarian failure, it is usually a natural stage that occurs to women in midlife, during their late s or early s, indicating the end of the reproductive period in the woman. During the menopause transition years, women experience changes in the production of ovarian hormones, which are associated with significant changes in the physiological, emotional, and affective processes. Unfortunately, surgical menopause occurs at an early age, and produces similar physiological and psychiatric disorders, but they are more severe in this instance. In both cases, typical symptoms associated with menopause critically deteriorate the mental health of the women. In this way, the therapeutic management of clinical symptoms of menopause include replacement hormone therapy, the use of anxiolytic and antidepressant drugs, and other natural alternatives based on the use of chemical compounds obtained from plants such as soya. However, a general effective treatment for menopause symptoms does not yet exist. For this reason, experimental studies have proposed ovariectomy in rats as a potential tool to study the effects of a long-term absence of ovarian hormones associated with surgical menopause, which also allowed the study of substances with potential therapeutic application to ameliorate typical symptoms associated with surgical menopause. The aim of this chapter is to review the participation of ovarian hormones in the regulation of emotional and affective disorders in women with natural or surgical menopause particularly their anatomical pathways, neurotransmission systems, and the resulting behavioural patterns. Finally, preclinical and clinical research suggested that longterm absence of ovarian hormones associated with natural or surgical menopause is the principal cause of physiological and psychiatric disorder in the women therefore, oestrogenic compounds seem to play an important role in the maintenance of the brain structures that regulate anxiety, mood, memory, and cognitive functions in menopausal women.

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Section: Anxiety Disorders and Mood Swings Associated With Natural Ormentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Anxiety Disorders and Mood Swings Associated With Natural Ormentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Anxiety Disorders and Mood Swings Associated With Natural Ormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anxiety in Natural and Surgical Menopause — Physiologic and Therapeutic Bases

Rodríguez‐Landa¹,

Puga-Olguín²,

JesúsGermán-Ponciano³

et al. 2015

A Fresh Look at Anxiety Disorders

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“…In sifap1 young stroke patients were recruited; thus, our results cannot be explained by loneliness of older women. Other mechanisms such as genetic predisposition, fluctuating hormone levels in women or direct psychological issues such as coping with traumatic events appear to be more relevant [21,22,23]. Facing the high psychological impact related to a CVE, sex-specific coping strategies could be relevant for explaining sex differences regarding CRDS in our patients.…”

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Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms in Young Stroke Patients - Results of the sifap1 Study

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Background: Although post-stroke depression is widely recognized, less is known about depressive symptoms in the acute stage of stroke and especially in young stroke patients. We thus investigated depressive symptoms and their determinants in such a cohort. Methods: The Stroke in Young Fabry Patients study (sifap1) prospectively recruited a large multinational European cohort (n = 5,023) of patients with a cerebrovascular event aged 18-55. For assessing clinically relevant depressive symptoms (CRDS, defined by a BDI-score ≥18) the self-reporting Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was obtained on inclusion in the study. Associations with baseline parameters, stroke severity (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, NIHSS), and brain MRI findings were analyzed. Results: From the 2007 patients with BDI documentation, 202 (10.1%) had CRDS. CRDS were observed more frequently in women (12.6 vs. 8.2% in men, p < 0.001). Patients with CRDS more often had arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia than patients without CRDS (hypertension: 58.0 vs. 47.1%, p = 0.017; diabetes mellitus: 17.9 vs. 8.9%, p < 0.001; hyperlipidemia: 40.5 vs. 32.3%, p = 0.012). In the subgroup of patients with ischemic stroke or TIA (n = 1,832) no significant associations between CRDS and cerebral MRI findings such as the presence of acute infarcts (68.1 vs. 65.8%, p = 0.666), old infarctions (63.4 vs. 62.1%, p = 0.725) or white matter hyper-intensities (51.6 vs. 53.7%, p = 0.520) were found. Conclusion: Depressive symptoms were present in 10.1% of young stroke patients in the acute phase, and were related to risk factors but not to imaging findings.

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“…High self-efficacy is reported to reduce anxiety and improve the quality of life among perimenopausal women. 7 An individual with high self-efficacy will be more able to adapt to changes, including facing menopause. 8 Some studies conducted in Indonesia found that knowledge is associated with anxiety in postmenopausal women.…”

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The correlation between knowledge, body image perception and self efficacy with anxiety among perimenopausal women in Dauh Puri Klod Village, Bali

Teja¹,

Ekawati

Wulanyani

2019

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Background and purpose: Level of anxiety among women approaching menopause is often high. This is influenced by knowledge, education, culture and customs, body image perception and self-efficacy. This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge, perception of body image and self-efficacy with anxiety in perimenopausal women.Methods: This study employed a cross sectional design with 87 perimenopausal women aged 45-55 years in Dauh Puri Klod Village, Denpasar City, Bali Province. Respondents were selected with systematic random sampling from 1,039 women aged 45-55 years recorded in Dauh Puri Klod Village. Interviews were conducted at each respondent's house in August 2018. Data collected included sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, perception of body image, self-efficacy and anxiety levels among women approaching menopause. Bivariate analysis with chi square test and multivariate analysis with logistic regression were conducted to identify the association between variables.Results: The results of bivariate analysis showed that variables associated with anxiety were knowledge (p=0.001), perception of body image (p=0.012) and self-efficacy (p=0.001). The results of multivariate analysis with the backward method showed that the variables associated with anxiety were knowledge (AOR=10.83; 95%CI: 3.31-35.37) and self-efficacy (AOR=3.48; 95%CI: 1.09-11.14).Conclusion: Anxiety in women approaching menopause is associated with knowledge and self-efficacy, but is not associated with perceptions of body image. Knowledge plays the most dominant role in reducing anxiety. Education needs to be improved to reduce anxiety in women approaching menopause.

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Comparison of depression, anxiety, quality of life, vitality and mental health between premenopausal and postmenopausal women

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Anxiety in Natural and Surgical Menopause — Physiologic and Therapeutic Bases

Anxiety in Natural and Surgical Menopause — Physiologic and Therapeutic Bases

Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms in Young Stroke Patients - Results of the sifap1 Study

The correlation between knowledge, body image perception and self efficacy with anxiety among perimenopausal women in Dauh Puri Klod Village, Bali

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