DAILY EXPERIENCES OF MENOPAUSAL WOMEN

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 在这项研究中，我们将测试在围绝经期妇女中使用血管舒缩症状、体力活动、情感、知觉控制和压力的主观和客观瞬时测量的可行性。这项研究将填补我们对更年期症状以及体力活动、情感、压力和正常人格特征对更年期体验的影响的理解方面的关键空白。更年期症状对许多女性来说是非常痛苦的。这项工作包括对更年期研究的方法改进(即多个瞬间评分、胸骨出汗测量、激素测定)，以及对更年期生理和心理体验中关键的理论化中介变量的综合前瞻性评估。这项研究将使用经验抽样方法和创新的多变量时间序列统计技术来表征日常症状报告中特定人的轨迹以及可能低于这些经验的因素。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. In this study we will test the feasibility of using both subjective and objective momentary measures of vasomotor symptoms, physical activity, affect, perceived control, and stress in peri-menopausal women. This study will fill in critical gaps in our understanding of menopausal symptoms, which for many women are highly distressing, and the influence of physical activity, affect, stress, and normal personality characteristics on the experience of menopause. This work includes methodological improvements to the study of menopause (i.e., multiple momentary ratings, sternal sweating measurement, hormonal assay) and comprehensive prospective assessment of key theorized mediating variables in the physical and psychological experience of menopause. This study will use experience sampling methods and innovative multivariate time series statsitical techniques to characterize person-specific trajectories in daily symptom reporting and factors that may underly these experiences.