General Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Menopause. 2019 Mar;26(3):311-316. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001204.
The main objective of the study is to translate and adapt the menopause-specific Utian Quality of Life (UQOL) scale to Yoruba, an indigenous Nigerian language, using middle-aged women attending a Family Medicine clinic in Nigeria.
A total of 322 middle-aged Nigerian women at various menopausal stages were recruited for the study. Their menopausal status was categorized using the Monash Women's Health Program Menopausal Staging Algorithm into pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal groups. The UQOL Yoruba version (YUQOL), Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), and a semistructured sociodemographic questionnaire were interviewer-administered to the women. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 21 software.
The overall scale and the four subscales of YUQOL all had acceptable internal consistency scores; they also demonstrated good construct and criterion validities, except the YUQOL sexual subscale had poor convergent validity (average variance extracted = 0.23).
This study has validated the YUQOL as a psychometrically sound research instrument for measuring menopause-specific QOL among women undergoing menopausal transition. Its sexual subscale would, however, need to be further tested, preferably in sexually active menopausal women to fully confirm its true psychometric property.
本研究的主要目的是将特发性尿失禁生活质量（UQOL）量表翻译成尼日利亚本土语言约鲁巴语，并适用于在尼日利亚家庭医学诊所就诊的中年女性。
共有 322 名处于不同绝经阶段的中年尼日利亚女性参与了这项研究。根据莫纳什妇女健康计划绝经分期算法，她们的绝经状态被分为绝经前、围绝经期和绝经后组。使用约鲁巴语版 UQOL（YUQOL）、绝经评定量表（MRS）和半结构式社会人口学问卷对女性进行访谈。使用 IBM SPSS 版本 21 软件对收集的数据进行分析。
YUQOL 的总体评分以及四个子量表均具有可接受的内部一致性评分；除 YUQOL 的性健康子量表具有较差的收敛效度（平均方差提取值=0.23）外，它们还具有良好的结构和标准效度。
本研究验证了 YUQOL 是一种用于衡量绝经过渡期女性特定生活质量的可靠心理计量学研究工具。然而，其性健康子量表需要进一步测试，最好在有性生活的绝经后女性中进行，以充分证实其真实的心理计量特性。
