title: [Developing and Verifying the Validity and Reliability of the Electronic Menopausal Health Screen System].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Menopausal women are in a transitional phase between health and sickness. Although the highest standards of menopausal care include clinical assessment and patient education on menopausal symptoms, current practices lack integrated care that aim to prevent chronic diseases for which menopause is a predisposing factor.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To integrate menopausal disturbances; to evaluate the risk factors for osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes; and to create a reliable and effective electronic menopausal health screen system (EMHSS).
  
  
  METHODS
  The research was conducted in the four stages of assessment and analysis, design, development, and pretest stage in order to explore the effectiveness of the developed EMHSS.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The EMHSS has a high degree of reliability and validity. Analysis found an expert validity of .97~.99, content validity of .99, and test-retest reliabilities of .80~.96 (Pearson's correlation) and .79~.96 (intra-class correlation).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The EPMHSS was developed using cross-disciplinary collaboration among nursing staff, medical practitioners, and information engineers in order to screen menopausal women. The EPMHSS provides tailored health education content for patients in a timely manner and compiles historical assessment data that may be referenced by nursing staff when providing health consultations and by physicians when delivering diagnoses and treatment.
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, NP, Department of Nursing, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Design, Department of Cosmetic Science, Vanung University, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Pei-Shan
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: PhD, MD, Professor and Attending Physician, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Vice Superintendent, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chyi-Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chieh-Yu
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Wen-Chin
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Taoyuan Innovation Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Yen-Yen
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: DNS, RN, Professor, Department of Nursing, and Dean, College of Nursing and Vice President, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan, ROC. leeing.tsao@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Lee-Ing
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Tsao
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic
keywords: assessment health risk factor; electronic health care; menopause