title: Anxiety and depression before and after the menopause.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our purpose was to investigate the anxiety and depression at postmenopausal women.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied 32 postmenopausal and 32 premenopausal patients aged between 40-55 years in Kinrikkale University Medical Faculty Obstetric and Gynecology Department. We performed Beck depression scale and State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) I and II on those patients. Blood samples were taken from each patient. We used student's t test, pearson correlation analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Beck depression test results were 21.3 +/- 6.7 and 15.1 +/- 5.6 in postmenopausal and premenopausal women respectively (p < 0.001). STAI-I were 50.4 +/- 9.1 and 47.5 +/- 8.5 in this 2 groups (p = 0.19) and STAI-II values were 47.5 +/- 9.1 and 45.4 +/- 7.5 (p = 0.33). We could not find a correlation between anxiety-depression and blood FSH, LH and E2 levels. We found a correlation between parity and depression (r = 0.423 p = 0.01). There were positive correlations between anxiety and depression tests (r = 0.489 p = 0.01 for STAI-I and r = 0.398 p) = 0.01 for STAI-II).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Depression rate is significantly higher in menopausal women.
authors.affiliation: Kirikkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aydinlikevler, Ankara, Turkey. nsagsoz@isbank.net.tr
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sagsöz
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Oguztürk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bayram
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamaci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D017698:Postmenopause; D017697:Premenopause
chemical_list: D004958:Estradiol; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone