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YANES CALDERON, Margeris  e  CHIO NARANJO, Ileana. Climateric syndrome intensity and its relation to some socio-environmental factors. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.4, pp.30-42. ISSN 0864-2125.

Introduction: Expressions like …I am in the menopause, I am old, and the problem is that I am in the climateric or it is the age change… are very common in the multidisciplinary consultation of climateric and menopause of "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic of Playa municipality. It was the reason to make this research, avoiding the biomedical approach with which the climateric period has been approached until nowadays moving forward to a medical-social approach. Objective: To determine how the socioenvironmental factors influence on the climateric syndrome intensity. Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in 192 climateric women seen in three medical consulting rooms from "Ana Betancourt" University Polyclinic of the Playa municipality from Ciudad de La Habana from June, 2006 to May, 2007. Results: Slight climateric syndrome was present in the 42,28% of study women, and those with a high schooling level have a major incidence of the asymptomatic climateric syndrome or slight; there was a close relation among the women presenting with a moderate climateric syndrome and the dysfunctional familiar performance; the workers women have a trend to present a less intensive climateric syndrome stayed by more than 33% of them, thus demonstrating that more than 30% women with a proper satisfaction of its basic needs and a good resident hygienic environment, have the greater incidence of the asymptomatic climateric syndrome or slight closely related to sociocultural and economic features of study health areas. Conclusions: Women with a higher schooling level, with conjugal stability and working link being part also of functional or moderately functional families and with a good resident hygienic environment in correspondence with satisfaction of their basic needs, have a higher incidence of slight climateric syndrome or asymptomatic.

Palavras-chave : Climateric; socioenvironmental factors.

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