Climacteric and sleep in women with prior COVID-19: pilot study

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate sleep quality, hot flashes, and climacteric symptoms in women with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection at the Women's Sleep Clinic of Hospital São Paulo. To determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this Clinic and to compare sleep quality, frequency of hot flashes, and climacteric symptoms between women with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and those without. METHODS: This is an analytical, observational, cross-sectional study, using a convenience sample from a Women's Sleep Clinic. The evaluation was conducted using the Menopause Rating Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Kupperman Index, questions about previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, daily frequency of hot flashes, and sociodemographic data. Eighty-five women were included in the study, and the sample was distributed among women with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection (34) and women without (51). Group comparisons were performed using Generalized Linear Models (GzLM) with appropriate distributions, and associations were analyzed with Spearman correlation, with P