Health-related quality of life and resilience in peri- and postmenopausal women during Covid-19 confinement

Coronado, Pluvio; Fasero, María; Otero, Beatriz; Sánchez, Sònia; Viuda, Esther de la; Ramirez-Polo, Isabel; Llaneza, Plácido; Mendoza, Nicolás; Baquedano, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.09.004

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“…This challenges popular and arguable paternalistic assumptions around menopausal women as in need of the care or help from policy and legislation [ 9 , 17 ]. Concepts and models of psychological resilience to menopausal difficulties are emerging as explanations for the epidemiology of symptoms [ 30 ]. A more asset-based approach to menopause and work research might inform which women cope best with which symptoms and why.…”

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“…Instead, this review found that women in casual work attributed their menopausal symptoms and their difficulties in managing them not to their inadequate or unfair working conditions, but to their broader life circumstances [ 21 – 23 ]. Amongst the multiple everyday challenges these women navigated, work was not necessarily a major part of life, and therefore not necessarily a major stress factor [ 21 , 22 , 30 ].…”

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Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs

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Governments, employers, and trade unions are increasingly developing “menopause at work” policies for female staff. Many of the world’s most marginalised women work, however, in more informal or insecure jobs, beyond the scope of such employment protections. This narrative review focuses upon the health impact of such casual work upon menopausal women, and specifically upon the menopausal symptoms they experience. Casual work, even in less-then-ideal conditions, is not inherently detrimental to the wellbeing of menopausal women; for many, work helps manage the social and emotional challenges of the menopause transition. Whereas women in higher status work tend to regard vasomotor symptoms as their main physical symptom, women in casual work report musculoskeletal pain as more problematic. Menopausal women in casual work describe high levels of anxiety, though tend to attribute this not to their work as much as their broader life stresses of lifelong poverty and ill-health, increasing caring responsibilities, and the intersectionally gendered ageism of the social gaze. Health and wellbeing at menopause is determined less by current working conditions than by the early life experiences (adverse childhood experiences, poor educational opportunities) predisposing women to poverty and casual work in adulthood. Approaches to supporting menopausal women in casual work must therefore also address the lifelong structural and systemic inequalities such women will have faced. In the era of COVID-19, with its devastating economic, social and health effects upon women and vulnerable groups, menopausal women in casual work are likely to face increased marginalisation and stress. Further research is need.

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“…The teaching, anxiety and preparedness section questions were generated to measure the level of preparedness the academic professionals had developed during the quarantine and to measure the levels of anxiety the adaptation to new methods of teaching have produced, and the return to a physical classroom using 4 questions and results were given the following classifications: Absent = 0-4, Mild = 5-8, Moderate = 9-12. Finally, we made an adaptation for the present study using five questions and we gave results using the following classifications: Very low (0-4), Low (5-8), Normal (9-12), High (13)(14)(15)(16), and Very high (17)(18)(19)(20). We evaluated the final version of the full questionnaire for internal consistency using Cronbach alpha (value > 0.9) to ensure reliability.…”

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“…We can also define resilience as a dynamic adaptative process that helps maintain a healthy psychological state. We can even say that individuals with high resilience have become mentally stronger because of adverse conditions ( 19 ).…”

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Teaching Anxiety, Stress and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Academic Professionals in Mexico Through the Adapted COVID-19 Stress Scales

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To mitigate the COVID-19 infection, many world governments endorsed the cessation of non-essential activities, such as the school attendance, forcing a shift of the teaching model to the virtual classroom. From this shift, several changes in the teaching paradigm derived, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could have an impact in academic professional's mental health. In the present work we show the application of a modified version of the adapted COVID-19 stress scales (ACSS) which also included teaching anxiety and preparedness, and resilience for academic professionals in Mexico. These scales were applied during the unprecedented transformation of the education system undergone in the COVID-19 quarantine. Most of the studied variables: gender, age, academic degree, household occupants, having a disease, teaching level, teaching mode, work hours, resilience, teaching anxiety and preparedness, and fear of being an asymptomatic patient (FOBAP), showed significant statistical correlation between each other (p < 0.050) and to the 6 areas of the ACSS (danger, contamination, social economical, xenophobia, traumatic stress, and compulsive checking). Our results further showed that the perceived stress and anxiety fell into the category of Absent to Mild, with only the danger section of the ACSS falling into the Moderate category. Finally, the resilience generated throughout the quarantine was very high, which seems to be a predictor of adaptation the academic professional has undergone to cope with stress.

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“…Entre as consequências que a pandemia trouxe para a população destacam-se o aumento do sedentarismo, percepção de piora na capacidade física, na saúde e, consequentemente, a redução da qualidade de vida [8][9][10][11] . O quadro clínico pode ser ainda mais grave nos indivíduos que dependem exclusivamente do sistema público de saúde para o tratamento das doenças, incluindo os pacientes com DAP.…”

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Impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 sobre o tratamento medicamentoso dos pacientes com doença arterial periférica: um estudo observacional transversal

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Resumo Contexto A pandemia do Coronavírus 2019 (COVID-19) tem afetado negativamente o comportamento da população. Nesse contexto, o impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 no tratamento medicamentoso dos pacientes com doença arterial periférica (DAP) e claudicação intermitente (CI) permanece obscuro. Objetivos Analisar o impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 no tratamento medicamentoso dos pacientes com DAP e CI. Métodos Neste estudo observacional transversal, 136 pacientes com DAP e CI, recrutados do nosso banco de dados, responderam por telefone um questionário envolvendo as seguintes questões: a) cuidados com a COVID-19; b) saúde global; c) tratamento das doenças. Posteriormente, os pacientes foram divididos em dois grupos, de acordo com a dificuldade para a aquisição dos medicamentos (DAM: dificuldade e SDAM: sem dificuldade), para a comparação da saúde global entre os dois grupos. Resultados Dezessete porcento dos pacientes reportaram dificuldades para a aquisição dos medicamentos durante a pandemia. Uma maior prevalência desses pacientes reportou estar mais triste (56,5% versus 24,8%, p < 0,01) e com mais dificuldades para dormir (56,5% versus 24,8%, p < 0,01) em relação aos pacientes do grupo SDAM. Os grupos não apresentaram diferenças para o declínio na capacidade de caminhada, ansiedade, estresse e depressão (p > 0,05). Conclusões Uma maior prevalência de pacientes do grupo DAM reportou estar mais triste e com mais dificuldade para dormir em comparação ao grupo SDAM durante a pandemia da COVID-19.

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Health-related quality of life and resilience in peri- and postmenopausal women during Covid-19 confinement

Cited by 27 publications

References 36 publications

Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs

Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs

Teaching Anxiety, Stress and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Academic Professionals in Mexico Through the Adapted COVID-19 Stress Scales

Impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 sobre o tratamento medicamentoso dos pacientes com doença arterial periférica: um estudo observacional transversal

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