CALIDAD DE VIDA RELACIONADA CON EL CLIMATERIO EN UNA POBLACIÓN CHILENA DE MUJERES SALUDABLES

SUMMARY Objective: To apply a chilean version of the MRS scale to evaluate quality of life in climacteric women. Methods: Application of chilean version of the MRS scale in 45-64 year-old women registered at Metropolitan Health Service (MHS) of Chile. Group 1, women attending programmed health preventive controls (n=844); and Group 2, women who require attention by gynecologist (n=360). Results: The suitable behavior of the used instrument was confirmed because the analysis of internal reliability showed Crombach’s alpha >0.8; external reliability showed correlation in re-test of both group with Pearson’s coefficient p<0.01 for the 11 items under study and for the somatic, psychological and urogenital domains; the validity of content was confirmed because in the 2 groups in study 3 domains in the contents could be found (psychological, somatic and urogenital) as seen in other countries; and the discriminative validity of the chilean version of the MRS scale demonstrated that both group of informed scores orient to a deterioration of quality of life in relation to the climacteric, being significantly greater the deterioration into the group 2. Conclusion: The Chilean version of the MRS scale is comparable methodologically to the original version of Heinemann and it allowed to evaluate as the quality of life in relation to the climacteric in a Chilean population is affected.