title: [Association between climacteric symptoms and quality of life].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medicina Reproductivia, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad, Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia Luis Castelazo Ayala, México. scarranzal@mexis.com
authors.forename: Sebastián
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carranza Lira
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cruz Sánchez
mesh_terms: 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