Banca de DEFESA: JÚLIA ALBUQUERQUE AGUIAR

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DISCENTE : JÚLIA ALBUQUERQUE AGUIAR
DATA : 09/06/2017
HORA: 08:30
LOCAL: Sala de Aula da Psicobiologia
TÍTULO:

Assessing cognition in perimenopauses and surgical menopaused women: do sleep quality, mood and menopausal complaints predict cognitive performance?

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Sex hormones. perimenopause, cognition, climacteric.

PÁGINAS: 78
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

General life expectancy has increased, which has provided to women around the world live about half of their adult lives after menopause, facing estrogen deficiency. Hormone deprivation evidenced in this period of life brings with it a great number of consequences for women, including cognitive deficit, changes in mood such as depression and anxiety, reduced sleep quality, and characteristic symptoms of this period, which includes hot flashes and facial flush, among others. Hence, this research aims to assess whether mood, sleep quality, menopausal complaints and surgical ovariectomy predicted the cognitive performance in perimenopausal women. Sixry-nine women were recruited in the Climacteric Clinic at the Januário Cicco Maternity-School, Natal-RN, Brazil. The assessment of cognitive performance occurred through tests of episodic memory, executive function and a questionnaire of memory complaints. Mood, sleep quality, comorbidities, menopausal complaints and surgical ovariectomy were analyzed as predictors of the cognitive performance. Comorbidities and menopausal symptoms data were collected in the participants’ medical records. The menopausal complaints were measured by the Blatt-Kupperman Index. The statistical analysis was conducted using general linear model and all data analysis was considered significant when P- value was < 0.05. Higher anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as worse sleep quality, predicted executive function performance. Also, menopausal complaints and depression symptoms predicted memory complaints, but comorbidities did not predict cognitive performance. Surgical ovariectomy but not natural perimenopause predicted reduced episodic memory performance in women. The acute hypoestrogenism faced by surgically ovariectomized women indicates a fast change in cognitive performance, which may suggest the degenerative effect of hormonal absence and a preventive use of hormone therapy could possibly reduce this alteration, as supported by the critical windows hypothesis. In the perimenopausal transition typical physiological alterations are commonly found, as well as hypoestrogenism repercussions on cognition, mood and sleep quality. Hence, an integrated approach of those factors may improve life quality for the climacteric patients.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - FABIOLA DA SILVA ALBUQUERQUE - UFPB
Presidente - 6346130 - MARIA BERNARDETE CORDEIRO DE SOUSA
Externo à Instituição - TECIA MARIA DE OLIVEIRA MARANHAO - UFRN