Hormonal and psychological treatment: therapeutic alternative for menopausal women?
The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychological support associated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was more beneficial than replacement therapy alone. Our findings showed that HRT alone was more effective against vasomotor symptoms than HRT with psychological treatment (PT). While the combination of both treatment modalities (HRT + PT) was more effective against insomnia, nervousness, melancholy, fatigue, palpitations, and vertigo. Hormonal treatment alone and HRT with psychological treatment had little effect against paresthesia or tingling. Neither HRT alone nor HRT with psychological treatment was effective against joint and muscle pain or headache.
Anarte
M T
MT
Department of Social Psychology and Psychology of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Málaga, Spain. anarte@uma.es
Cuadros
J L
JL
Herrera
J
J
D000328:Adult; D002979:Climacteric / Q000523:psychology*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011613:Psychotherapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome