title: How age conditions the relationship between climacteric status and health symptoms in African American women.
abstract: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the relationship between climacteric status and health symptoms across age cohorts in 522 African American women aged 25-75. Data were collected through home interviews and subjected to hierarchical regression analyses. In the overall sample a direct relationship was found between climacteric status and physical health symptoms but not mental health symptoms. A direct relationship between climacteric status and both physical and mental health symptoms was found for the younger age cohort 25-34. There was a direct relationship between climacteric status and physical health symptoms but not mental health symptoms for the 35-44 age cohort. The relationship between climacteric status and physical and mental health symptoms held despite controls for education, income, marital status, and body mass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pyngolil
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002979:Climacteric / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008393:Marriage; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D009732:Nursing Care; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors