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Family Practice Vol. 11, No. 4, 408-412
© Oxford University Press 1994

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Beliefs about Menopause of General Practitioners and Mid-aged Women

KLM LIAO, MS HUNTER and P WHITE*

Division of Psychiatry and Psychology London, UK
*Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry London, UK

Correspondence to: K.L.M. Liao, Medical School, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RT, UK

Recent general population studies suggest that experience of the normal menopause transition is relatively unremarkable for the majority of women, but negative stereotyped beliefs about menopause remain pervasive. This study explored GPs' beliefs and opinions about menopause in general, and compared the GPs' beliefs with those of their mid-aged female patients. All GPs at five general practices (n = 24) and 101 45-year-old women registered at the same practices took part. Large proportions of both groups believed that most women experience somatic and psychological difficulties during menopause. GPs expressed more negative beliefs than patients but were also more likely to express positive/neutral beliefs. Some causal attributions of menopausal problems were shared by the two groups, but they differed on others. When both GPs and patients hold negative social stereotypes about menopause, problems of mid-aged women may be misattributed to menopause. Health information on menopause may be biased towards negative images of menopause and of aging women.


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