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Original Article

The Nigerian Aging Males' Symptoms scale. Experience in elderly males

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Pages 89-93 | Received 17 Sep 2007, Accepted 26 Mar 2008, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

Figures & data

Table I.  Demographic description of the sample of elderly males interviewed in Nigeria.

Table II.  Internal structure and domains of the AMS scale. Comparison of the community sample of elderly males of Nigeria and males in Europe Citation[6].

Table III.  Internal consistency coefficients (alpha) for the AMS scale in elderly men in Nigeria compared with Europe: Total score and scores for the psychological, somatic, and sexual sub-scale. Mean and SD of the total score of AMS and of domain scores. Community samples.

Table IV.  Domain score – Total score correlations of the AMS scale. Comparison between the Nigerian and the pooled European community sample.

Table V.  Norm values of the AMS scale estimated from the Nigerian survey of elderly males (n= 456). Categories of severity of complaints in the total scale and the three domains. European population reference values (n= 5907) of males aged 40–70 as comparison.

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