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  • Women's Health
  • Psychometrics

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  • Numerous scales exist to measure menopausal symptoms, but a lack of standardization complicates their use.
  • Prioritizing and selecting appropriate scales for menopausal symptom assessment is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the correlation between four widely used menopause symptom questionnaires: Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), Greene Climacteric Scale (GCS), Kupperman Menopausal Index, and Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ).

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 336 women aged 40-65 years.
  • Administered all four questionnaires to participants.
  • Analyzed overall and subscale scores using Spearman rank correlation coefficient (Rho).

Main Results:

  • All questionnaires demonstrated very strong correlations (Rho > 0.80, P < 0.001).
  • The Greene Climacteric Scale (GCS) showed the strongest correlations (Rho 0.92-0.95).
  • The Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ) exhibited the weakest correlations (Rho -0.86 to -0.89).

Conclusions:

  • The MRS, GCS, Kupperman Menopausal Index, and WHQ assess menopausal symptoms similarly.
  • Further studies are needed to refine and validate these questionnaires for research and clinical practice.