Creating culturally sensitive and community-sensitive measures of development

Busch-Rossnagel, Nancy A.

doi:10.1002/cd.58

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“…Therefore, questionnaires designed for European Caucasian women may not be specific enough to pick up subtle but important features in menopausal symptoms among midlife women of different ethnic groups (Hilditch et al, 2008). As the U.S. population continues to diversify, measures should have cultural competence, especially when a study includes multiethnic groups of people (Busch-Rossnagel, 2002). Measures need to have an awareness of, sensitivity to, and knowledge of the meaning of culture in order to understand and estimate effectively the experiences of people from different backgrounds.…”

Section: Measurement Of Menopausal Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychometric Evaluation of the Midlife Women’s Symptom Index in Multiethnic Groups

Lee

Chee

2010

West J Nurs Res

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The Midlife Women’s Symptom Index (MSI) was designed to measure menopausal symptoms specifically in a multiethnic sample of midlife women. This study is a psychometric property test to evaluate MSI among 512 multiethnic groups of midlife women (White, Hispanic, African American, and Asian American). Across the ethnic groups, MSI had an adequate internal consistency in all subdomains except psychosomatic symptoms. The item-to-total correlation coefficients of “lost weight” and “nosebleeds” were less than 0.20 among all ethnic groups. The discriminant validity was confirmed among all ethnic groups except Asian Americans. Overall, MSI may work better for Whites and not as well for Asian Americans, compared with other ethnic groups. Additional studies with diverse groups of multiethnic midlife women are needed, however, to confirm MSI psychometric properties.

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Section: Measurement Of Menopausal Symptomsmentioning

confidence: 99%