Adaptation of the Utian Quality of Life Scale to Portuguese using a community sample of Portuguese women in premenopause, perimenopause, and postmenopause

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 532-539

  Pimenta, Filipa ^a   Leal, Isabel ^a   Maroco, João ^a   Rosa, Bruna ^a   Utian, Wulf H ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community sample; Portuguese; Utian quality of life scale; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMACTERIUM; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS SEVERITY INVENTORY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBJECTIVE WELL BEING SCALE; UTIAN QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMENOPAUSE; PORTUGAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879217174     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3182745658     Document Type: Article

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