[Association between climacteric symptoms and quality of life].
BACKGROUND
Several scales have been developed for symptom and qualityof life evaluation in climacteric women. Utian quality of life scale (UQoL) as well as SUMEVA scale has been validated in climacteric women.


OBJECTIVE
to find the correlation between SUMEVA and UQoL scales, and to determine if SUMEVA scale can be used as a quality of life scale.


METHODS
100 climacteric women between 40 and 60 years old were studied. Both scales were applied, UQoL (23 items) and SUMEVA (22 items). Statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, was used and Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated.


RESULTS
Age mean was 47.4 +/- 5.6 years and BMI 29.9 +/- 21.0. Score of UQoL scale was 68.2 +/- 13.0 and that of SUMEVA was 47.1 +/- 30.3. A significant negative correlation between both scales was found (-0.323, p < 0.001).


CONCLUSIONS
SUMEVA scale allows to indirectly evaluating quality of life in climacteric patients.
Carranza Lira
Sebastián
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Medicina Reproductivia, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad, Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia Luis Castelazo Ayala, México. scarranzal@mexis.com
Cruz Sánchez
Karina
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D000328:Adult; D002979:Climacteric / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires