title: [Adaptation and validation of scales to measure self-efficacy and empowerment for self-care in Mexican climacteric stage women].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To adapt and validate in Spanish of Mexico scales to measure self-efficacy (SES) and empowerment for self-care (ES) among climacteric women.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted from February to July 2011 in two family medicine clinics in Mexico City. The adaptation phase was done through testing for language comprehension. To validate the scales we used the principal Axis factoring analysis with oblique rotation technique and estimation of Cronbach's alpha (CA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three hundred eighty women aged 45-59 years participated in the study. SES had 16 items with four factors: participation in the doctor-patient relationship; in the study control of mental health and sexual changes; risk of dying from cancer, and other health risks that explained 39.8% of the variability, CA = 0.84. ES had eight items with one factor explaining 47.1% variability; CA = 0.83.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both scales had acceptable psychometric properties and are suitable for interventions aimed at improving self-care of climacteric women.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México, DF, México. svetlana.doubova@gmail.com
authors.forename: Svetlana V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Doubova
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Espinosa-Alarcón
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Infante
authors.forename: Rebeca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aguirre-Hernández
authors.forename: Leticia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Aguilar
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Olivares-Santos
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Cuevas
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000523:psychology*; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012648:Self Care; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires