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Area of Science:

  • Endocrinology
  • Psychometrics
  • Women's Health

Background:

  • Assessing short-term benefits and risks of sex-steroid hormone use (oral contraceptives [OC] or hormone replacement therapy [HRT]) is of longstanding interest.
  • Existing methods lack a validated scale to comprehensively evaluate the diverse effects of short-term hormone therapy.
  • A need exists for a reliable instrument to capture patient-reported outcomes related to hormone use.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a new psychometric scale for measuring the short-term effects of sex-steroid hormone use in women.
  • To provide a feasible and interpretable tool for assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) related to OC and HRT.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an initial 43-item scale with 47 general data points.
  • Data collection through surveys in Italy, Germany, and Austria.
  • Factorial analyses were employed to refine the scale, followed by reliability and validity investigations of the resulting 15-item scale.

Main Results:

  • The final scale comprises 15 items distributed across 5 distinct domains.
  • Satisfactory internal consistency reliability coefficients and test-retest reliability coefficients were achieved.
  • Promising results were observed for content and concurrent validity, indicating the scale's robustness.

Conclusions:

  • The psychometric properties of the newly developed 15-item scale demonstrate its suitability for measuring short-term effects of sex-steroid hormones in women.
  • The scale is deemed appropriate, feasible, interpretable, reliable, and valid for application as a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure.