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PCOS is Considered composite disease with wide range of manifestations which affect Quality of life of females, there are various questionnaires to Assess quality of life but mPCOSQ is more valid and reliable tool, but some females in our region don’t understand English language for assessment of their quality of life there was need of translation and validation of mPCOSQ in Marathi. A Cross sectional study conducted on 78 women speaking Marathi language. Participants included in study with mean Age 22.9±4.6 and BMI 24.7 ± 2.7 respectively most of them diagnosed with PCOS for ≥ 1 year. All experts rated translated items of the mPCOSQ as clinically relevant with comments on few items that were modified the Content validity index (CVI) for MARmPCOSQ was 0.9. The internal consistency for reliability, the alpha coefficient was 0.92 indicating good reliability. The interclass co-relation Coefficient for each item were also acceptable, ranging from 0.921 to 0.978 with p value < 0.001. which shows that the scale has good Reliability. Key words: PCOS, Marathi Translated PCOS, PCOSQ, Polycystic ovary syndrome Questionnaire. |
