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Table 1 Internal consistency coefficients (alpha) for the AMS scale in France compared with rest of Europe: total score and scores for the psychological, somatic, and sexual sub-scale. Mean and SD of the scale and sub-scales. Community samples.

From: The French Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale: Methodological review

 

France (N= 903)

Europe* (N = 5907)

 

Mean (SD)

alpha

Mean (SD)

alpha

Total score

27.7 (9.3)

0.89

28.0 (9.4)

0.90

Psychological score

7.6 (2.9)

0.75

7.4 (3.1)

0.82

Somatic score

12.5 (4.7)

0.81

12.6 (4.7)

0.81

Sexual score

7.6 (3.1)

0.76

7.9 (3.4)

0.80

  1. * Database is identical with the methodological review of international data published earlier [6] and kindly provided by L.A. J. Heinemann