2008/12/31 by EINAR KRISTIAN BORUD, Einar Kristian Borud, Monica Martinussen +5
Health Professions · Medicine · #Health and Wellbeing Research #Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments #Menstrual Health and Disorders
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00701.x
openalex publication_date 2008/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
The Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ) was designed specifically to study possible changes that occur during menopause. The purpose of this study was to perform a psychometric evaluation of the Norwegian version of the WHQ by examining the factor structure and construct validity of the instrument. Data used for the evaluation were collected at baseline of the ACUFLASH study, a randomized, controlled clinical trial that evaluated the effect of acupuncture treatment on menopausal symptoms. Altogether, 267 women with a very high frequency of hot flushes were included in the study. Some deficiencies in the WHQ questionnaire were observed when applied to this sample, including an unclear factor structure, low alpha values for some dimensions, and a strong floor effect in the vasomotor symptoms dimension. The total scale score appears reliable, but care should be taken when interpreting some of the subscales.