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Quality of life (QOL) has been defined in several different ways by different authors and studies. In an attempt to operationalize this concept, a number of instruments have been developed to transform subjective QOL information into objective and measurable data which could be used to develop health-care policies and programs to improve health and health-related QOL in individuals and populations. Currently, several specific and generic QOL instruments are available in the literature, and investigators suggest that both types of evaluation be used in order to provide an accurate assessment. Periods of life such as the climacteric are associated with symptoms that may have a significant impact on QOL. These are often influenced by women's beliefs and attitudes about menopause itself. A number of tools have been developed to assess the influence of such symptoms on QOL, and the development and use of each of these instruments will be discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Menopause Clinic of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rua 14 de julho 746/4, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 91340430, Brazil

    Maria Celeste O. Wender MD, PhD

  2. Department of Medicine, University Unochapecó, Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Patrícia Pereira de Oliveira

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  1. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Miranda A. Farage

  2. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Kenneth W. Miller

  3. School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Nancy Fugate Woods

  4. Department of Dermatology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Wender, M.C.O., de Oliveira, P.P. (2015). Quality of Life. In: Farage, M., Miller, K., Fugate Woods, N., Maibach, H. (eds) Skin, Mucosa and Menopause. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44080-3_29

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