title: [Pretest survey on the Chinese menopause rating scale].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To select the items from the Chinese menopause rating scale (CMRS) through pre-testing those people with menopausal syndromes.
  
  
  METHODS
  293 people were surveyed in Guangzhou in 2005, among which 196 people with menopausal syndromes and others without. Psychometrics methods were employed to develop the scale. The item pools were all round. Methods used would include: focus group discussion and interviews, subjective evaluation method and Delphi method, to preliminarily screen the items. Data on scales measured from 196 cases with and 97 subjects without menopausal syndromes during the menopausal period, were collected. Again, seven statistical methods were employed to select the items.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 40-items scale for menopausal syndrome was formed to include: a) three domains: somatic (18-items), psychological (14-items) and social (5-items); b) one general appraisal item; c) two lie-test items.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Chinese menopausal syndrome scale we used seemed to possess good content validity, feasibility and intra-class reliability.
authors.affiliation: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Ze-huai
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Guang-ning
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Xiao-yun
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hong-yan
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chun-ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Da-rong
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shao-bin
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jin-cai
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Su
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires