Adaptation and translation of the menopause-specific Utian Quality of Life (UQOL) scale to Yoruba language using middle-aged women attending a clinic in Nigeria
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2019
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The North American Menopause Society
Abstract
Objective: The main objective of the study is to translate and adapt the menopause-specific Utian Quality of Life
(UQOL) scale to Yoruba, an indigenous Nigerian language, using middle-aged women attending a Family Medicine
clinic in Nigeria.
Methods: A total of 322 middle-aged Nigerian women at various menopausal stages were recruited for the study.
Their menopausal status was categorized using the Monash Women’s Health Program Menopausal Staging
Algorithm into pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal groups. The UQOL Yoruba version (YUQOL), Menopause Rating
Scale (MRS), and a semistructured sociodemographic questionnaire were interviewer-administered to the women.
The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 21 software.
Results: The overall scale and the four subscales of YUQOL all had acceptable internal consistency scores; they
also demonstrated good construct and criterion validities, except the YUQOL sexual subscale had poor convergent
validity (average variance extracted ¼ 0.23).
Conclusions: This study has validated the YUQOL as a psychometrically sound research instrument for
measuring menopause-specific QOL among women undergoing menopausal transition. Its sexual subscale would,
however, need to be further tested, preferably in sexually active menopausal women to fully confirm its true
psychometric property.
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UQOL, Utian Quality of Life, YUQOL, Utian Quality of Life Yoruba version, Menopause-specific, Quality of Life