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SUMMARY:How health beliefs influence the symptom experience and treatment 
 decisions at menopause - Helena Rubinstein\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20140312T130000Z
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CONTACT:Rebecca Noorderhaven
DESCRIPTION:Note Seminar moved to Wednesday 12th March\n\nThe menopause is
  a universal experience for women assuming that they reach their mid-50s. 
 However\, compared with other less prevalent aspects of the human female r
 eproductive cycle\, such as pregnancy and childbirth\, we know little abou
 t how women approach this\nimportant phase of their lives. I will focus on
  the social constructions that women in the UK have about menopause and di
 scuss how these beliefs influence their experience of symptoms and decisio
 ns about whether to seek treatment. My research shows that menopause can\n
 be thought of as synonymous with aging and invisibility\, as an illness\nt
 hat changes women\, as a condition that can be treated and as a temporary 
 phase after which there is recovery. These beliefs are contradictory but c
 an be held simultaneously by women and have a direct influence on the expe
 rience. Moreover\, believing that menopause\nis an illness that is amenabl
 e to treatment is a mediator that increases the propensity to seek biomedi
 cal treatments whereas believing that there will be a positive recovery af
 ter menopause is a mediator of the use of non-biomedical treatments.
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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