Masoudeh babakhanian - Abnormal Uterine Bleeding Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
Masumeh Ghazanfarpour - Department of Midwifery, Razi School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Introduction The current study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties, including validity content, internal consistency and construct validitymethods:This is a psychometric study on 350 healthy postmenopausal Iranian women referred to healthcare centers in Semen and Mashhad cities, aiming to examine reliability, content validity and construct validity. Results:Mean age of subjects were 55.45±5.58 years. Cronbach s alpha was 0.68% and original modified model was reported to be unidentified. Therefore, the exploratory factor analysis was performed through principal-component analysis with varimax rotation. Given the results of scree plot, eigenvalues and the interpretability of the different factor solutions factor, five factors structures were identified as the most appropriate solutions for attitude toward menopause. These five factors explained 48% of variance.Conclusions:Our findings showed that attitude toward menopause Checklist (ATM) should be modified in accordance with Iranian culture to predispose for feasible assessment of attitude toward the menopause. Further investigations are needed to be conducted to evaluate all of the psychometric properties of this scale.

Psychometric properties, attitude toward menopause, Persian version, exploratory factor analysis