TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Association between intergenerational violence exposure and maternal age of menopause
JO  - Menopause
A1  - Foster, Holly
A1  - Hagan, John
A1  - Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
A1  - Garcia, Jess
SP  - 284
EP  - 292
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether maternal violence exposure personally and through her child is associated with an earlier age of menopause, controlling for covariates. <br><br>METHODS: Analyses used merged data from two related sources. Although mothers (n = 1,466) were interviewed in 1995 and then 20 years later (2015-17), their children were interviewed in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health repeatedly (Waves 1-4, 1994/5 to 2008-2009). Mothers reported their own age of menopause, and mothers and adolescents each reported their own exposure to violence as children and adults. <br><br>RESULTS: A mother's own childhood physical abuse (b = -1.60, P < .05) and her child's sexual abuse (b = -1.39, P < .01) both were associated with an earlier age of menopause. Mothers who were physically abused in childhood and have a child who experienced regular sexual abuse reached menopause 8.78 years earlier than mothers without a history of personal abuse or abuse of their child. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our study is the first to find that age of natural menopause is associated with intergenerational violence exposures.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1072-3714
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000001923
ID  - ref1
ER  -