1Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Address correspondence to: Kirsten A. Dickins, PhD, AM, MSN, FNP-C, Connell Postdoctoral Fellow in Nursing Research, Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 125 Nashua Street, Suite #7632, Boston, MA 02114. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 19 June, 2020
Revised 24 July, 2020
Accepted 24 July, 2020
Some of these data were presented in an abstract and ePoster for the Annual Eastern Nursing Research Society Conference in March 2020. This report shares findings from a new secondary data analysis of 33 women without HIV who participated in the following studies: Looby SE, Psaros C, Raggio G, et al. Association between HIV status and psychological symptoms in perimenopausal women. Menopause. 2018;25(6):648-656 and Looby SE, Shifren J, Corless I, et al. Increased hot flash severity and related interference in perimenopausal HIV-infected women. Menopause 2014; 21(4):403-409.
Funding/support: Funding for the parent study for this project was provided by NIH K23 NR011833-01A1 to Dr. S.E.L. The project was also supported by Grant Number 8 UL1 TR000170-05 and 1 UL1 RR025758-04, Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: K.D. and S.E.L. have no competing financial interests for this manuscript. Unrelated to this work, S.E.L. is a nonpaid board member of the nonprofit organization Healing Our Community Collaborative, Inc. Boston, MA, and has received 1-time speaker fees from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care in 2017 and 2019.
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