title: [Reliability of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS): Investigation in the German population].
abstract: The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) is a well accepted instrument to measure the severity of menopausal symptoms. As yet, however, investigations had not specifically been directed towards short-term test-retest reliability of the scale. The MRS was twice applied in a random sample of 45-65 years aged women of the German Cohort Study of Women's Health with a distance between the measurements of 14 days. The response rate in the sample was 70 %. The correlation coefficient (Pearson) of the sum-score of the two measurements was r = 0.82. The high repeatability of the test results confirms our clinical experience and emphasizes excellent practical applicability. The MRS can be recommended for the clinical practice as a reliable scale both for the measurement and long-term surveillance of menopausal complaint dynamics.
authors.affiliation: ZEG - Zentrum für Epidemiologie & Gesundheitsforschung, Berlin, Germany. heinemann@zeg-berlin.de
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Heinemann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assmann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Möhner
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Heinemann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002979:Climacteric / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: Reliabilität der Menopause-Rating-Skala (MRS) - Untersuchung für die deutsche Bevölkerung.