Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the modified polycystic ovary syndrome health-related quality-of-life questionnaire

Luo, Yun-yun; Xu, Xiao-lin; Li, Xiao-bin

doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01380-6

Table 5 Factor analysis and item-domain correlation analysis of the Chi-MPCOSQ

From: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the modified polycystic ovary syndrome health-related quality-of-life questionnaire

Domain	Item	Emotional disturbance	Weight	Hirsutism	Acne	Infertility	Menstrual symptoms	Menstrual predictability
Emotional disturbance	Afraid of getting cancer	0.809^a	0.208	−0.065	0.052	0.419	0.118	0.244
	Lack of control over the situation with PCOS	0.878^a	0.286	−0.020	0.018	0.296	0.186	0.170
	Self-conscious as a result of having PCOS	0.886^a	0.362	−0.013	0.03	0.299	0.191	0.200
	Depressed as a result of having PCOS	0.908^a	0.276	−0.132	0.083	0.436	0.192	0.091
	Low self-esteem as a result of having PCOS	0.838^a	0.230	0.034	0.113	0.308	0.340	0.180
	Moody as a result of having PCOS	0.899^a	0.240	− 0.039	0.149	0.309	0.229	0.091
	Worried about having PCOS	0.905^a	0.326	−0.074	0.177	0.441	0.216	0.157
Weight	Felt unsexy because overweight	0.204	0.893^a	0.081	0.039	0.328	0.021	0.127
	Difficulties staying at your ideal weight	0.339	0.872^a	0.028	0.066	0.408	0.098	0.143
	Trouble dealing with weight	0.251	0.877^a	0.077	0.032	0.383	0.045	0.118
	Frustration in trying to lose weight	0.286	0.834^a	0.121	−0.040	0.324	0.094	0.125
	Concerned about being over weight	0.246	0.868^a	0.093	−0.010	0.323	0.108	0.129
	Easily Tired	0.33	0.895^a	0.089	0.033	0.352	0.101	0.139
Hirsutism	Growth of visible hair on upper lip	−0.071	0.127	0.826^a	0.093	0.018	0.151	0.208
	Growth of visible hair on chin	−0.016	0.121	0.892^a	0.122	0.017	0.212	0.195
	Growth of visible hair on face	−0.075	0.055	0.837^a	0.258	−0.014	0.262	0.139
	Embarrassment about excessive body hair	0.005	0.022	0.774^a	0.231	0.053	0.169	0.123
	Growth of visible body hair	−0.056	0.059	0.819^a	0.287	0.079	0.091	0.132
Acne	Acne	0.093	0.001	0.200	0.897^a	0.024	0.044	0.098
	Felt unattractive because of acne	0.152	−0.021	0.245	0.938^a	− 0.001	0.112	0.095
	Depressed as a result of acne	0.046	0.009	0.202	0.913^a	0.022	0.057	0.024
	Acne^b	0.081	0.096	0.214	0.894^a	0.019	0.028	0.065
Infertility	Sad because of infertility problems	0.432	0.357	0.128	0.040	0.880^a	0.056	0.170
	Afraid of not being able to have children	0.392	0.337	0.003	−0.069	0.865^a	0.030	0.113
	Concerned about infertility problems	0.252	0.362	−0.041	0.069	0.875^a	−0.029	0.137
Menstrual symptoms	Abdominal bloating^b	0.201	0.120	0	−0.026	0.031	0.725^a	−0.079
	Menstrual cramps^b	0.156	0.070	0.252	0.075	−0.111	0.801^a	0.032
	Headaches^b	0.190	0.018	0.251	0.105	0.078	0.829^a	0.126
Menstrual predictability	Last menstruation period^b	0.176	0.178	0.167	0.091	0.141	0.027	0.920^a
Menstrual predictability	Irregular menstrual periods^b	0.167	0.980	0.189	0.053	0.157	0.034	0.920^a

^aP < 0.001
^bRefers to the last menstruation
Abbreviations: Chi-MPCOSQ Chinese version of the modified polycystic ovary syndrome health-related quality-of-life questionnaire, PCOS polycystic ovary syndrome

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