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Menopause Symptoms’ Severity Inventory (MSSI-38): Assessing the frequency and intensity of symptoms
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Objectives Menopausal instruments usually assess the frequency or intensity of symptoms. The present
study develops and validates an inventory to assess the severity of menopausal symptoms through the
measurement of their frequency and intensity, and explores the differences between women with different
menopausal status.
Methods A community sample of 992 Portuguese women in pre-, peri- and postmenopause completed the
proposed inventory with 47 items. Factor exploratory and confi rmatory analyses, and comparative statistics
for paired and independent samples, were applied using PASW Statistics v.19 and AMOS v.18 software.
Results The fi nal structure with 38 items organized in 12 factors showed overall good psychometric
properties (in terms of factor analysis, convergent, discriminant and criterion validity, as well as regarding
reliability, sensitivity, and measure invariance in two different and independent samples). The Wilcoxon test
confi rmed signifi cant differences between frequency and intensity of symptoms. Moreover, peri- and postmenopausal
women in this community sample presented low symptom severity (ranging from 0.4 to 1.4 in
a scale from 0 to 4). Although postmenopausal participants presented higher levels (when compared with
their perimenopausal counterparts), the two groups only diverged signifi cantly in some physical symptoms
(namely, aches and pain, vasomotor symptoms, numbness, skin and facial hair changes, urinary and sexual
symptoms).
Conclusion This research emphasizes that severity measurement of symptoms should account for both
frequency and intensity. Moreover, it contributes a fully validated 12-dimenson inventory for menopausal
symptoms, the Menopause Symptoms ’ Severity Inventory-38. Regarding differences between peri- and postmenopausal
women, the increment in symptoms only happens in physical symptoms, although the severity
levels are not exacerbated.
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Menopause Symptom severity Inventory Validation Perimenopause Postmenopause
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Climateric, 15, 143-152