CONSTRUCTING A STANDARD CLIMACTERIC SCALE

Authors
Citation
Jg. Greene, CONSTRUCTING A STANDARD CLIMACTERIC SCALE, Maturitas, 29(1), 1998, pp. 25-31
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Geiatric & Gerontology","Obsetric & Gynecology
Journal title
ISSN journal
03785122
Volume
29
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
25 - 31
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-5122(1998)29:1<25:CASCS>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Issues relating to the design of scales and their psychometric propert ies are discussed in the context of constructing a standard measure of core climacteric symptoms. Seven factor analytic studies of climacter ic symptoms are examined to determine whether or not there is sufficie nt consensus across studies to permit agreement on the symptom content and the structure of such a scale. It is argued that these factor ana lytic studies do indeed contain sufficient consensus on the basis of w hich a standard climacteric scale can be constructed. Such a scale is described. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.