Scale development and validation of perimenopausal women disability index in the workplace.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Menopausal disorders include obscure symptomatology that greatly reduce work productivity among female workers. Quantifying the impact of menopause-related symptoms on work productivity is very difficult because no such guidelines exist to date. We aimed to develop a scale of overall health status for working women in the perimenopausal period.

Methods

In September, 2021, we conducted an Internet web survey which included 3,645 female workers aged 45-56 years in perimenopausal period. We asked the participants to answer 76 items relevant to menopausal symptomatology, that were created for this study and performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses for the scale development. Cronbach's alpha, receiver operating characteristic analysis, and logistic regres

SUBMITTER: Nomura K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853391 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature