The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale: A methodological review

Table 1 Internal consistency coefficients (alpha) for the MRS scale across countries: total score and scores for the psychological, somatic, and urogenital domain. Data from the Nine-Country Study

	International	Europe					North America	Latin America			Asia
	Total	Overall	Sweden	Germany	France	Spain	USA	Overall	Mexico	Brazil	Argentina	Indonesia
N	9907	4465	1490	1050	941	984	1440	3002	1002	1000	1000	1000
Total score	0.83	0.86	0.85	0.84	0.86	0.86	0.88	0.86	0.87	0.86	0.83	0.84
Psychologic ascore	0.87	0.88	0.88	0.86	0.89	0.86	0.90	0.85	0.86	0.87	0.81	0.79
Somatic score	0.66	0.64	0.65	0.64	0.64	0.61	0.70	0.66	0.65	0.69	0.64	0.69
Urogenital score	0.65	0.65	0.64	0.63	0.67	0.67	0.70	0.60	0.62	0.55	0.62	0.65

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