Cross cultural adaptation and analysis of psychometric properties of Sinhala version of Menopause Rating Scale

Table 4 Three factors extracted by the factor analysis with Varimax rotation

Subscale (As original scale)	Item	Item	Component (As FA suggested in this study)
Subscale (As original scale)	Item	Item	1 (Psychological)	2 (Somato-sexual)	3 (Physical)
Somato-vegetative	1	Hot flushes, sweating		0.40	0.56
	2	Heart discomfort		0.52
	3	Sleep disturbances			0.56
Psychological	4	Depressive mood	0.80
	5	Irritability	0.77
	6	Anxiety	0.88
	7	Physical and mental exhaustion			0.71
Uro-genital	8	Sexual problems		0.83
	9	Bladder problems			0.62
	10	Dryness of vagina		0.86
Somato-vegetative	11	Joint and muscular discomfort			0.60

Items are presented in short forms, All coefficients are significant at p<0.01
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis, Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization
Factor 1 was named as “psychological”, Factor 2 was named as “somato-sexual” and Factor 3 was named as “physical” considering the nature of saturated items in this analysis

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