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 Volume 11, Issue 3 (March 2024), Pages: 183-191

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 Original Research Paper

An integrative review on middle-aged men's andropause

 Author(s): 

 Young Sook Lim, Sun Jung Park *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Nursing, Sahmyook Health University, Seoul, South Korea

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-5436

 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2024.03.019

 Abstract

This paper aims to explore how middle-aged men manage andropause. It draws on extensive research to provide essential information for developing a management program to support them. The study involved searching electronic databases with keywords like 'male,' 'andropause,' 'male andropause,' and 'mediation' to locate relevant research. From January 2002 to January 2022, 11 studies were selected after reviewing the complete texts of articles published in international academic journals. These studies comprised 8 on individual coping strategies and 3 on group coping strategies for andropause. The subjects included 6 men undergoing hormone therapy, 2 with hormone deficiency, 2 on antidepressants, and 1 with type 2 diabetes. The assessment tools in these studies primarily focused on hormones, hormone deficiency, and diabetes. The results suggest that coping strategies for andropause can significantly enhance nursing care, indicating that effective use of these strategies by nurses could improve nursing outcomes.

 © 2024 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Andropause mediation, Middle-aged men, Hormone therapy, Nursing intervention, Integrated study

 Article history

 Received 30 March 2023, Received in revised form 22 February 2024, Accepted 7 March 2024

 Funding 

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. RS-2022-00166296).

 Acknowledgment 

This performance result is a research conducted with the support received from the National Research Foundation of Korea with the financial resources made available by the government (Ministry of Science and ICT) (No. RS-2022-00166296).

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Lim YS and Park SJ (2024). An integrative review on middle-aged men's andropause. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 11(3): 183-191

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