Table 3. Relationship between stress score and menopausal symptoms scores in study groups.

Scale	Premenopausal Women (n = 145)		Postmenopausal Women (n = 170)
	r	P valuea	r	P valuea
Hot flashes intensity	0.087	0.298	0.247	0.001
MRS score	0.029	0.730	0.148	0.054
AIS score	0.052	0.537	0.063	0.416
SAS score	0.117	0.161	0.059	0.446
SDS score	0.045	0.587	0.055	0.476

MRS, Menopause Rating Scale; AIS, Athens Insomnia Scale; SAS, Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale; SDS, Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale.

^ap values were calculated using the Spearman correlation.