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A national multiethnic online forum study on menopausal symptom experience.
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- A survey to understand the experience, perceptions, and stigma around menopause among African American women.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Información es poder (information is power): menopause knowledge, attitudes, and experiences in midlife Hispanic women and Latinas.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Menopause knowledge, attitudes and experiences of women in Saudi Arabia: a qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Online Forums as a Tool for Broader Inclusion of Voices on Health Care Communication Experiences and Serious Illness Care: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Depressive symptoms and type II diabetes mellitus among midlife women.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to Healthy Midlife Transition among South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada: A Qualitative Exploration.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A qualitative analysis of Internet forum discussions on hard flaccid syndrome.International journal of impotence research · 2020Article
- Comparative Efficacy of Zolpidem and Nigella Sativa in Treatment of Sleep Disorder and Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopausal Women of Women's General Hospital.Journal of family & reproductive health · 2020Article
- Quality of Life among Iranian Postmenopausal Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Galen medical journal · 2020Review
- The relationships of multiple factors to menopausal symptoms in different racial/ethnic groups of midlife women: The structural equation modeling.Women & health · 2019Article
- Immigration transition and depressive symptoms: four major ethnic groups of midlife women in the United States.Health care for women international · 2015Article
- Ethnic differences in the clusters of menopausal symptoms.Health care for women international · 2014Article
- Health behaviors of postmenopausal women.Przeglad menopauzalny = Menopause review · 2014Article
- Depressive symptoms of midlife Latinas: effect of immigration and sociodemographic factors.International journal of women's health · 2013Article
- Practical guidelines for qualitative research using online forums.Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · 2012Article
- "Symptom-specific or holistic": menopausal symptom management.Health care for women international · 2012Article
- Health advantage for black women: patterns in pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder.Psychological medicine · 2011Article
- A situation-specific theory of Asian immigrant women's menopausal symptom experience in the United States.ANS. Advances in nursing scienceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about how culture influences menopausal symptom experience, and few comparative qualitative studies have been conducted among multiethnic groups of midlife women in the United States.
objectivesThe purpose of this study was to explore commonalities and differences in menopausal symptom experience among four major ethnic groups in the United States (Whites, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians).
methodsThis was a secondary analysis of qualitative data from a larger national Internet-based study. The qualitative data from 90 middle-aged women in the United States who attended four ethnic-specific online forums of the larger study were examined using thematic analysis.
resultsThe themes reflecting commonalities across the ethnic groups were just a part of life, trying to be optimistic, getting support, and more information needed. The themes reflecting the differences among the ethnic groups were open and closed, universal and unique, and controlling and minimizing. Overall, the findings indicated positive changes in women's menopausal symptom experience and supported the existence of cultural influences on women's menopausal symptom experience across the ethnic groups. DISCUSSION: Systematic efforts need to be made to empower midlife women in their management of menopausal symptoms.
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