Establishing Psychometric Properties of Menopause Symptoms Inventory (MSI)
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Psychometric properties, Menopause, Symptoms and Inventory.Abstract
The literature has suggested that menopause symptoms are conveniently divided into two groups: these are psychological symptoms associated with immediate or eminent cessation of menses, and those physiological symptoms which appear after some years of menopause. The purpose of this study was to construct an inventory based on psychological and physiological symptoms which appear after some years of menopause, to obtain test-retest reliabilities of items and to factor analyze the instrument to empirically investigate the two-type of menopause. The first set of 550 items had mean test-retest reliabilities of 0.76 and yielded two clearly distinct factors in support of the two-type hypotheses. When items with factor loadings less than
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