更年期网站 - MyMenoplan.org - 对治疗意图,知识和决策的积极影响:随机对照试验
Leslie B Snyder1, Katherine M Newton2, Hui Xin Ng3
1Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, 377 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1259, USA.
Maturitas
|June 12, 2025
概括
网站MyMenoplan.org显著改善了绝经前期和绝经期妇女的绝经知识和决策. 与对照网站相比,它有效地提高了治疗意图和症状管理的清晰度.
科学领域:
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 数字健康干预措施 数字健康干预措施
- 基于证据的医学基于证据的医学.
背景情况:
- 更年期过渡涉及显著的生理和心理变化,经常伴随着需要可靠的健康信息.
- 现有的资源可能无法充分满足经历半绝经和更年期的人的综合需求.
- MyMenoplan.org是为了提供基于证据的信息和决策工具来管理更年期而开发的.
研究的目的:
- 评估MyMenoplan.org网站对更年期知识的影响.
- 评估网站对有关治疗和应对策略的决策进展的影响.
- 为了确定网站在改善与更年期管理相关的意图方面的有效性.
主要方法:
- 在线招募和随机选择经历经期和更年期的参与者.
- 干预组与MyMenoplan.org互动;对照组使用其他网站.
- 进行在线调查以评估结果,并使用调整后的线性回归模型分析数据.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,MyMenoplan.org组显示出明显更高的意图改变治疗的意图.
- 使用MyMenoplan.org的参与者报告说,他们对更年期症状和治疗方法的知识有了显著的改善.
- 网站干预导致了治疗决策的更大进展,以及对治疗益处和风险的明确性.
结论:
- MyMenoplan.org是首个由NIH资助的网站,它被证明可以有效地支持更年期过渡的学习和决策.
- 该网站是向医疗保健提供者和患者传播基本的,基于证据的信息的有价值的模型.
- 它解决了女性接近或处于半月经期和更年期的可靠资源的急需问题.
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