Research Article
Hormone Replacement Therapy: Lebanese Women’s Awareness, Perception, and Acceptance
Table 3
Factors influencing the attitude towards HRT use.
| | HRT use in menopause | Positive N = 44 | Negative N = 32 | value |
| Age group | Mean (±SD) | 50.12 ± 9.40 | 54.33 ± 10.18 | 0.14 | Number of children delivered | None | 4 (9.3) | 4 (12.5) | 0.72 | At least one child | 39 (90.7) | 28 (87.5) | | None | 4 (9.3) | 4 (12.5) | 0.03 | 1–2 | 13 (30.2) | 12 (37.5) | | 3–4 | 25 (58.1) | 10 (31.2) | | >4 | 1 (2.3) | 6 (18.8) | | Marital status | Married | 40 (90.9) | 30 (93.8) | 1.00 | Not married | 4 (9.1) | 2 (6.2) | | Employment | Employed | 24 (60.0) | 11 (39.3) | 0.09 | Unemployed | 16 (40.0) | 17 (60.7) | | Education | School | 10 (26.3) | 9 (31.0) | 0.67 | University | 28 (73.7) | 20 (69.0) | | Smoking | Nonsmoker | 34 (87.2) | 23 (76.7) | 0.25 | Smoker | 5 (12.8) | 7 (23.3) | | History of OCP use | Yes | 12 (30.0) | 10 (31.2) | 0.91 | Medical history | Yes | 24 (57.1) | 14 (43.8) | 0.25 | Menstrual status | Premenopausal | 19 (43.2) | 12 (37.5) | 0.84 | Perimenopausal | 4 (9.1) | 4 (12.5) | | Postmenopausal | 21 (47.7) | 16 (50.0) | | Type of menopause in the case of menopaused female | Spontaneous | 18 (81.8) | 14 (77.8) | 0.85 | Surgical intervention | 2 (9.1) | 3 (16.7) | | Medical treatment | 2 (9.1) | 1 (5.6) | | Menopausal symptoms | None | 1 (3.8) | 1 (5.3) | 0.13 | One symptom | 7 (26.9) | 1 (5.3) | | Hot flashes | 3 (11.5) | 0 (0.0) | | Mood swings | 1 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | | Feeling more tired than usual | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | | Weight gain | 1 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | | Vaginal dryness | 1 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | | Facial hair growth | 1 (3.8) | 1 (5.3) | | More than 2 symptoms | 18 (69.2) | 17 (89.5) | | Menopause duration | Mean (±SD) | 8.85 ± 8.62 | 10.31 ± 7.29 | 0.63 | Heard about HRT before | Yes | 42 (95.5) | 28 (87.5) | 0.20 | HRT total score | Mean (±SD) | 67.02 ± 10.92 | 59.70 ± 15.17 | 0.02 | HRT prescription | Yes | 25 (58.1) | 23 (71.9) | 0.22 | Source of information | Internet | 2 (9.5) | 4 (19.0) | 0.03 | Doctor | 8 (38.1) | 3 (14.3) | | Society | 5 (23.8) | 10 (47.6) | | Side effects that you actually felt | 0 (0.0) | 3 (14.3) | | More than one source | 6 (28.6) | 1 (4.8) | | Encourage treatment | Strongly agree | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0.01 | Agree | 12 (54.5) | 3 (13.6) | | Neutral | 6 (27.3) | 6 (27.3) | | Disagree | 2 (9.1) | 10 (45.5) | | Strongly disagree | 1 (4.5) | 3 (13.6) | | Agree | 13 (59.1) | 3 (13.6) | 0.002 | Disagree | 9 (40.9) | 19 (86.4) | | Awareness of WHI | Yes | 14 (32.6) | 6 (19.4) | 0.21 | Source of awareness | Internet | 4 (30.8) | 2 (33.3) | 0.59 | Environment | 3 (23.1) | 0 (0.0) | | Doctor | 0 (0.0) | 1 (16.7) | | TV program | 3 (23.1) | 2 (33.3) | | More than one source | 3 (23.1) | 1 (16.7) | | Effect on decision | Start HRT | 2 (22.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0.79 | Refuse or stop using HRT | 4 (44.4) | 3 (60.0) | | Neutral | 3 (33.3) | 2 (40.0) | |
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