The Persian Version of Menopause Rating Scale (MRS): A Psychometric Study

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Table 1 Demographic Characteristics

Variables	Frequency (%)
Age (yr)
40–45	54 (20)
46–51	135 (50)
52–60	81 (30)
Marriage status
Married	245 (90.7)
Divorced	25 (9.3)
Education
Illiterate	39 (14.4)
Primary school	141 (52.2)
Secondary nd university	90 (33.4)
Employment
Housewife	265 (98.2)
Employed	5 (1.8)
Body mass index (kg/m^2)
Underweight	8 (2.9)
Normal weight	20 (7.4)
Overweight	120 (44.5)

Table 2 The Scores of Relevancy, Clarity, Simplicity, CVI and CVR for MRS

Items	Relativity	Clarity	Simplicity	CVI	CVR
Depressive mood	0.80	0.80	0.80	0.80	1.00
Anxiety	0.80	1.00	0.80	0.86	1.00
Irritability	0.90	1.00	0.80	0.90	0.80
Physical and mental exhaustion	0.90	0.90	0.90	0.90	1.00
Joint and muscular discomfort	0.90	0.90	0.90	0.90	0.90
Dryness of vagina	0.80	1.00	0.90	0.90	0.90
Bladder problems	0.80	0.90	0.80	0.83	0.90
Sexual problems	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Heart discomfort	0.80	1.00	0.90	0.90	0.90
Hot flashes, sweating	1.00	1.00	0.90	0.93	1.00
Sleep problems	0.80	1.00	0.80	0.86	1.00
Total	0.86	0.95	0.86	88.0	0.94

Table 3 Rotated Factor Pattern Coefficients for Variable Solutions (11 Items) of the Factors

Items	Factor 1 Psychological Domain	Factor 2 Urogenital Domain	Factor 3 Somatic Domain
Depressive mood	0.797
Anxiety	0.674
Irritability	0.626
Physical and mental exhaustion	0.468
Joint and muscular discomfort		0.617
Dryness of vagina		0.593
Bladder problems		0.526
Sexual problems		0.525
Heart discomfort			− 0.883
Hot flashes, sweating			−0.514
Sleep problems			−0.396
Percent of variance explained	37.44	6.23	4.02

Figure 1 CFA-based relations between the items and the factors and between the factors. All the relations between the factors and the items and between the factors were statistically significant (all p<0.05).

Table 4 Item-Level Intraclass Correlation Coefficients and Cronbach’s Alpha for MRS

Items	Factor 1 Psychological Domain	Factor 2 Urogenital Domain	Factor 3 Somatic Domain
Depressive mood	0.74 (0.58–0.84)
Anxiety	0.52 (0.22–0.70)
Irritability	0.76 (0.62–0.85)
Physical and mental exhaustion	0.62 (0.38–0.76)
Joint and muscular discomfort		0.82 (0.71–0.89)
Dryness of vagina		0.51 (0.19–0.70)
Bladder problems		0.41 (0.05–0.63)
Sexual problems		0.76 (0.61–0.86)
Heart discomfort			0.65 (0.44–0.78)
Hot flashes, sweating			0.71 (0.53–0.82)
Sleep problems			0.79 (0.67–0.87)
Domains	0.89 (0.83–0.91)	0.74 (0.68–0.80)	0.79 (0.70–0.86)
Total	0.93 (0.90–0.95)
Cronbach α (total: 0.85)	0.81	0.70	0.74