%0 Journal Article
%T CONOCIMIENTOS PERI-POSTMENOPAUSICOS EN MUJERES COLOMBIANAS, UNA VALIDACIAN PSICOMETRICA
%A TRIVI£¿O V
%A ZAIDER
%A MERINO
%A JOSE M
%A STIEPOVICH
%A JASNA
%J Ciencia y enfermer¨ªa
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0717-95532006000200004
%X aim: to validate knowledge scale of peri-postmenopause in colombian women, from 45 to 60 years. material and methods: it is a nonexperimental design of observational type, which was realized in a quota sample comprised by 101 women of peri-postmenopause stage at cali, colombia, selected from representative sectors of low, middle and high socioeconomic strata, between june-august, 2006. the knowledge scale was constructed by 22 items, which included knowledges, beliefs, signs and symptoms and care; using questions of dichotomous format. results: the total scale score, presented a relatively normal distribution, with an average of 15.8, and a standard deviation of 4.3, reliability was measured by means of cronbach's alpha, which was 0.83. principal component analysis showed an unidimensional structure, which explained 36 % of the variance. face validity was obtained by using an expert's committee. conclusions: the scale of knowledge is reliable and valid in an application on colombian peri-and postmenopause women. by means of principal components analysis scale unidimensionality was established
%K knowledge
%K peri-postmenopause
%K scale
%K psychometric.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-95532006000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en