Negative Affect and Vasomotor Symptoms in the Study of Womens Health Across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study

摘要

ObjectiveVasomotor symptoms (VMS) are common during the menopausal transition. Negative affect is consistently associated with self-reported VMS, but interpretation of this relationship is limited by infrequent measurement and retrospective recall of VMS. Using prospective data from daily diaries, we examined the daily association between negative affect and reported VMS, as well as temporal associations between negative affect and next day VMS, and VMS and next day negative affect.