TY - JOUR
T1 - Menopausal transition symptoms in midlife women living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
AU - Wilbur, Joellen
AU - Shaver, Joan
AU - Kogan, Joseph
AU - Buntin, Mary
AU - Wang, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
Received 27 October 2004; accepted 17 June 2005. Acknowledgment of financial support: The Ralph and Marion Falk Medical Research Trust. The authors thank Kevin Grandfield for editorial assistance. Address correspondence to JoEllen Wilbur, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 S. Damen Ave., Room 606, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2006/8/1
Y1 - 2006/8/1
N2 - We aimed to determine how menopausal transition symptoms cluster across 216 midlife women with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndromes (FMS/CFS), or both and subsequently to compare symptom factor severity scores by menopausal status among these women and compare symptom reporting with prior community-based samples of women without obvious illness. We designed a cross-sectional telephone survey of 216 women aged 35 to 55, diagnosed with FMS/CFS, symptomatic in the prior 6 months, and without hysterectomy. Thirty-six of 61 symptoms loaded on five factors: aroused/anxious mood, depressed mood/withdrawal, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal (GI), and vasomotor. Peri- and postmenopausal women had higher symptom severity scores for musculoskeletal, GI, and vasomotor factors but not mood factors. Symptoms for the women we studied who had FMS/CFS clustered similar to those in previous community-based samples of midlife women without major illness; however, the number of women experiencing symptoms was much higher among our sample.
AB - We aimed to determine how menopausal transition symptoms cluster across 216 midlife women with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndromes (FMS/CFS), or both and subsequently to compare symptom factor severity scores by menopausal status among these women and compare symptom reporting with prior community-based samples of women without obvious illness. We designed a cross-sectional telephone survey of 216 women aged 35 to 55, diagnosed with FMS/CFS, symptomatic in the prior 6 months, and without hysterectomy. Thirty-six of 61 symptoms loaded on five factors: aroused/anxious mood, depressed mood/withdrawal, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal (GI), and vasomotor. Peri- and postmenopausal women had higher symptom severity scores for musculoskeletal, GI, and vasomotor factors but not mood factors. Symptoms for the women we studied who had FMS/CFS clustered similar to those in previous community-based samples of midlife women without major illness; however, the number of women experiencing symptoms was much higher among our sample.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746268969&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=33746268969&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07399330600803741
DO - 10.1080/07399330600803741
M3 - Article
C2 - 16844673
AN - SCOPUS:33746268969
SN - 0739-9332
VL - 27
SP - 600
EP - 614
JO - Health care for women international
JF - Health care for women international
IS - 7
ER -