Constructing Menopause on Sweden's Official Healthcare Platform: A Critical Discourse Analysis.
Amanda Calvin, Kerstin Erlandsson, Camilla Udo and 1 others
PMID 41635145WHAT IT FOUND
1177.se menopause content often calls symptoms mild discomfort, omits phase details, stresses breast-cancer risk, and assumes Swedish-speaking heterosexual women.
This may limit informed choice and patient education.
Key findings
01The pages used discomfort and common to frame menopause as mild and expected, and used menopause as one umbrella term for all phases.
02Hormone therapy was framed mainly through breast-cancer risk without statistical context, while benefits were mentioned only briefly.
03Menopause information was available only in Swedish and easy-to-read Swedish and assumed an able, heterosexual, Swedish-speaking reader with time, money and support.
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What it does not show
This is a discourse analysis of website text, not a study of patients, clinicians or health outcomes. It examined only pages found by searching menopause on 1177.se in Swedish, so related content or other sources may be missing. The authors interpret language through a gender-equity and nursing perspective, and they state that this is one possible reading. The analysis cannot show how women actually understood the pages or whether the language changed care-seeking.
Declared interests
The authors report nothing for funding, ethics or conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that 1177.se content caused worse menopause care or that nurses should stop using it. The study analysed website language only, not patient encounters, clinician behaviour or health outcomes.