Associations between common mental disorders and menopause: cross-sectional analysis of the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey.

ABSTRACT: We investigated whether women who participated in a household survey in England were more likely to screen positive for possible generalised anxiety disorder and depression during and after menopause. We used logistic regression in secondary cross-sectional analyses of 1413 participants from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey data, adjusting for potential confounders (including age, deprivation score and chronic disease).We found that participants who were post-menopausal were more likely to screen positive for possible depression compared with participants who were pre-menopausal (3.9% v. 1.7%; adjusted odds ratio 3.91, 95% CI 1.23-12.46), but there was no association with perimenopause. We found no evidence of an association between menopausal stage and possible generalis

SUBMITTER: Adji A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10304854 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature