Research so far conducted on Australian Indigenous women's experiences of menopause has provided some insight into some of the differences between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience.
Considered generally, the results of the National Survey reveal marked differences between the indigenous populations in the country's major geopolitical regions for many of the variables investigated.
Despite the differences between the indigenous and non-indigenous groups, the time to diagnosis was shown to be unsatisfactory in both groups.
The study included all suicides reported in the NAO during the 11-year study period (252 cases), but this sample did not have sufficient statistical power to firmly investigate differences between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations, and specifically in subgroups of these populations defined by other variables in the study.
This provided my first real understanding of a fundamental difference between how the indigenous people of Guatemala view disaster and how a North American does.
As well, some income difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations may be due to the younger age structure of Indigenous populations in these countries, and improvements over time may therefore partly reflect changes in age structure, rather than real improvement.
For cases without metastatic disease, there was no difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the duration or quantity of radiotherapy (52.5 Gy respectively) or number of cycles of chemotherapy administered (p = 0.93).
There were no major ethnic differences between Sami and non-Sami in prevalence, however the pattern of predictors differed somewhat between the indigenous and non-indigenous group.
Bivariate analysis revealed a statistically significant difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous smoking status at the antenatal hospital booking visit (community based antenatal care is provided and women are referred for a hospital booking at approximately 17 24 weeks gestation) (48.9% vs. 19.2%; difference 30.0%, 95% CI 27.2, 32.3%).
There were no major differences in the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in Sami and non-Sami, however the associating factors differed somewhat between the indigenous and non-indigenous group.
