Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2009 Dec;15(4):320-327. 10.4069/kjwhn.2009.15.4.320.

Gender Role Identity and Quality of Life of Hysterectomy Women Receiving Hormone Replacement Therapy

• Lee HJ
• Park HS
• Kim NH

• KMID: 2308029
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2009.15.4.320

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of the gender role identity and quality of life of women applying hormone replacement therapy with hysterectomy and to identify the relation among these variables.The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of the gender role identity and quality of life of women applying hormone replacement therapy with hysterectomy and to identify the relation among these variables. METHODS: The subjects were 121 outpatients applying hormone replacement therapy with hysterectomy at a university hospital in Busan province. The data were collected using self-reported questionnaire and medical record, from September to October 2008. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences in the degree of quality of life according to the age, educational level, occupation, family economic status, Body Mass Index (BMI), menopause state, duration to restarting intercourse from hysterectomy, discomfort from intercourse, satisfaction from intercourse and duration, sources, and formulation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The femininity identity group occupied the largest proportion (31.4%), and then the masculinity identity group (28.1%), the undifferentiated identity group (26.4%), and finally the androgyny identity group (14.1%). There was a positive correlation between femininity and quality of life (r=.276, p=.002). CONCLUSION: These results indicate that HRT helps the women's sense of loss caused by hysterectomy to be reduced, the postmenopausal symptom after hysterectomy to be relieved and the quality of life to be improved.

Keyword

Hysterectomy; Hormone replacement therapy; Gender role identity; Quality of life

MeSH Terms

Body Mass Index
Female
Femininity
Gender Identity
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Humans
Hysterectomy
Masculinity
Medical Records
Menopause
Occupations
Outpatients
Quality of Life
Surveys and Questionnaires

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