Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.

<h4>Background</h4>Hormone therapy (HT) in the menopause is still a tricky question among healthcare providers, women and mass media. Informing women about hormone replacement therapy was a Consensus Conference (CC) organized in 2008: the project Know the Menopause has been launched to s...

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Autores principales:	Serena Donati, Roberto Satolli, Cinzia Colombo, Sabrina Senatore, Rodolfo Cotichini, Roberto Da Cas, Stefania Spila Alegiani, Paola Mosconi
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:80bbbcf6fabe47a8ba980f02da5266162021-11-18T08:39:16ZInforming women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0085121https://doaj.org/article/80bbbcf6fabe47a8ba980f02da5266162013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24391988/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Hormone therapy (HT) in the menopause is still a tricky question among healthcare providers, women and mass media. Informing women about hormone replacement therapy was a Consensus Conference (CC) organized in 2008: the project Know the Menopause has been launched to shift out the results to women and healthcare providers and to assess the impact of the cc's statement.<h4>Methods</h4>And Findings: The project, aimed at women aged 45-60 years, was developed in four Italian Regions: Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio, Sicily, each with one Local Health Unit (LHU) as "intervention" and one as "control". Activities performed were: survey on the press; training courses for health professionals; educational materials for target populations; survey aimed at women, general practitioners (GPs), and gynaecologists; data analysis on HT drugs' prescription. Local activities were: training courses; public meetings; dissemination on mass media. About 3,700 health professionals were contacted and 1,800 participated in the project. About 146,500 printed leaflets on menopause were distributed to facilitate the dialogue among women and health care professionals. Training courses and educational cascade-process activities: participation ranged 25- 72% of GPs, 17-71% of gynaecologists, 14-78% of pharmacists, 34-85% of midwives.<h4>Survey</h4>1,281 women interviewed. More than 90% believed menopause was a normal phase in life. More than half did not receive information about menopause and therapies. HT prescription analysis: prevalence fell from 6% to 4% in five years. No differences in time trends before-after the intervention. Major limitations are: organizational difficulties met by LHU, too short time for some local activities.<h4>Conclusions</h4>A huge amount of information was spread through health professionals and women. The issue of menopause was also used to discuss women's wellbeing. This project offered an opportunity to launch a multidisciplinary, multimodal approach to menopause looking not only at pharmacological aspects, but also at quality of life and information.Serena DonatiRoberto SatolliCinzia ColomboSabrina SenatoreRodolfo CotichiniRoberto Da CasStefania Spila AlegianiPaola MosconiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 12, p e85121 (2013)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Serena Donati Roberto Satolli Cinzia Colombo Sabrina Senatore Rodolfo Cotichini Roberto Da Cas Stefania Spila Alegiani Paola Mosconi Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
description	<h4>Background</h4>Hormone therapy (HT) in the menopause is still a tricky question among healthcare providers, women and mass media. Informing women about hormone replacement therapy was a Consensus Conference (CC) organized in 2008: the project Know the Menopause has been launched to shift out the results to women and healthcare providers and to assess the impact of the cc's statement.<h4>Methods</h4>And Findings: The project, aimed at women aged 45-60 years, was developed in four Italian Regions: Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio, Sicily, each with one Local Health Unit (LHU) as "intervention" and one as "control". Activities performed were: survey on the press; training courses for health professionals; educational materials for target populations; survey aimed at women, general practitioners (GPs), and gynaecologists; data analysis on HT drugs' prescription. Local activities were: training courses; public meetings; dissemination on mass media. About 3,700 health professionals were contacted and 1,800 participated in the project. About 146,500 printed leaflets on menopause were distributed to facilitate the dialogue among women and health care professionals. Training courses and educational cascade-process activities: participation ranged 25- 72% of GPs, 17-71% of gynaecologists, 14-78% of pharmacists, 34-85% of midwives.<h4>Survey</h4>1,281 women interviewed. More than 90% believed menopause was a normal phase in life. More than half did not receive information about menopause and therapies. HT prescription analysis: prevalence fell from 6% to 4% in five years. No differences in time trends before-after the intervention. Major limitations are: organizational difficulties met by LHU, too short time for some local activities.<h4>Conclusions</h4>A huge amount of information was spread through health professionals and women. The issue of menopause was also used to discuss women's wellbeing. This project offered an opportunity to launch a multidisciplinary, multimodal approach to menopause looking not only at pharmacological aspects, but also at quality of life and information.
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author	Serena Donati Roberto Satolli Cinzia Colombo Sabrina Senatore Rodolfo Cotichini Roberto Da Cas Stefania Spila Alegiani Paola Mosconi
author_facet	Serena Donati Roberto Satolli Cinzia Colombo Sabrina Senatore Rodolfo Cotichini Roberto Da Cas Stefania Spila Alegiani Paola Mosconi
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title	Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
title_short	Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
title_full	Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
title_fullStr	Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
title_full_unstemmed	Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
title_sort	informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: know the menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.
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Informing women on menopause and hormone therapy: Know The Menopause a multidisciplinary project involving local healthcare system.

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