Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 1 Internal consistency coefficients (α) for the AMS scale across countries: total score and scores for the psychological, somatic, and sexual sub-scale. Community samples.

From: The Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale: review of its methodological characteristics

	EUROPE						ASIA
	Overall	Germany			UK	Rest Europe*	Overall	Thailand	Korea
		1996	1997	2003	2000	2002		2002	2002
N	5809	116	958	4633	96	118	45	20	25
Total score	0.90	0.88	0.86	0.90	0.90	0.88	0.92	0.79	0.94
Psychological score	0.83	0.82	0.76	0.83	0.84	0.76	0.87	0.58	0.89
Somatic score	0.82	0.84	0.79	0.82	0.85	0.77	0.83	0.70	0.87
Sexual score	0.81	0.80	0.72	0.81	0.80	0.80	0.77	0.62	0.76

* France, Spain,, Portugal, Italy, Sweden (about n = 20 each)

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