Women and Health
Volume 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 53-67

Symptom experience during menopausal transition: Low income Korean immigrant women (Article)

Im E.-O. , Meleis A.I.* , Lee K.A.
  • a School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
  • b Dept. of Community Health Systems, Box 0608, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States, Dept. of Community Health Systems, School of Nursing, Univ. of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
  • c Dept. of Family Health Care Nursing, Box 0606, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States

Abstract

The symptoms experienced during menopausal transition of a vulnerable group of women, low income Korean immigrants, are described in this paper. The findings demonstrated that (a) the types of the symptoms that the women reported were different from those reported by Western women; (b) the women tended to normalize their symptoms; and (c) their symptom experience was influenced by immigration transition and its contextual variables. We suggest that symptom experience of immigrant women during menopausal transition be understood within the contexts of their immigration transition, and that their own views of normality of the menopausal transition be respected.

Author Keywords

Korean immigrant women Menopause Symptom experience

Index Keywords

lowest income group poverty immigration human middle aged controlled study Adaptation, Psychological ethnology United States Humans Asian Americans female Socioeconomic Factors cultural factor symptom Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Article major clinical study adult patient attitude Emigration and Immigration Climacteric menopause Korea
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0032814361&doi=10.1300%2fJ013v29n02_04&partnerID=40&md5=b86d7c6abffab2215c86c58289b0999d
DOI: 10.1300/J013v29n02_04
ISSN: 03630242
Cited by: 34
Original Language: English