Sintomas do climatério: prevalência em mulheres de uma Unidade Básica de Saúde da Família do município de Cajazeiras - PB.

Abstract

A woman's body goes through several stages during life and one of these phases is menopause that occurs between 35 and 50 years. Menopause is a natural phase of women’s life cycle, not pathological, in which occurs the passage of the reproductive period to non-reproductive, in this period there is hormonal, metabolic and clinical changes. The purpose of this study was to identify climacteric symptoms that prevail in contexts experienced by menopausal women in a micro-area of a Family Health Unit. This is a quantitative, descriptive and explanatory study, analytical cross-sectional cohort. 50 women aged between 35 and 50 years registered as users of a micro-area called Oliveira Health Simon Unit were analyzed. The results obtained by Identification Card and sociodemographic profile and the Women's Health Questionnaire (QSM), formed a database and the analyzing statistics were performed with the Statistical Package for Social Science statistical packages for Windows (SPSS). The symptomatic groups with the greatest severity of symptoms among women interviewed were vasomotor, attractiveness, sexual behavior, memory, sleep and menstrual problems. This way it was identified the need for measures to encourage specific actions that contribute to the quality care during menopause.