Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN): Cross-Sectional Screener Dataset, [United States], 1995-1997
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim
Selzer, Faith
Sowers, MaryFran, R. (Mary Frances Roy)
Neer, Robert
Powell, Lynda
Gold, Ellen B.
Greendale, Gail
Weiss, Gerson
Matthews, Karen A.
McKinlay, Sonja
doctor visits
health attitudes
health behavior
health services utilization
life satisfaction
menopause
mental health
older adults
quality of life
women
womens health care
work
<p>This collection includes screener data collected as part of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), which is a multi-site longitudinal, epidemiologic study which began in 1994 and was designed to examine the health of women during their middle years. The study examines the physical, biological, psychological, and social changes during this transitional period. The goal of SWAN's research is to help scientists, health care providers, and women learn how mid-life experiences affect health and quality of life during aging. This data includes questions about doctor visits, medical conditions, medications, treatments, medical procedures, relationships, smoking, and menopause related information such as age at pre-, peri- and post-menopause, self-attitudes, feelings, and common physical problems associated with menopause. Also included in the data are background characteristics (age, race, occupation, education, marital status, and family size).</p> <p>The SWAN study is co-sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health. The screener dataset contains information from 16,142 women who responded to the SWAN cross-sectional screening interview during the period from 11/1/1995 through 12/1/1997 from the 7 clinical sites participating in the SWAN longitudinal study. The sites include Boston, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Oakland and Los Angeles, California, Detroit, Michigan, Newark, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois. SWAN participants represent five racial/ethnic groups and a variety of backgrounds and cultures.</p>
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http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04368.v5
03-11-2019
clinical data
survey data
Boston
California
Chicago
Detroit
Illinois
Los Angeles
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Jersey
Newark
Oakland
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
United States
1995--1997