Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay
The Aging Male Symptoms Scale (AMS) measures health-related quality of life in aging men. The objective of this paper is to describe the translation and validation of the AMS into Bahasa Melayu (BM). The original English version of the AMS was translated into BM by 2 translators to produce BM1 and B...
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| author | Hui, Meng Tan Wah, Yun Low Seng, Fah Tong Haniff, Jamaiyah Appannah, Geeta Lee, Verna K. M. Ee, Ming Khoo Chirk, Jenn Ng Chee, Christopher Kong Ho |
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| description | The Aging Male Symptoms Scale (AMS) measures health-related quality of life in aging men. The objective of this paper is to describe the translation and validation of the AMS into Bahasa Melayu (BM). The original English version of the AMS was translated into BM by 2 translators to produce BM1 and BM2, and subsequently harmonized to produce BM3. Two other independent translators, blinded to the English version, back-translated BM3 to yield E2 and E3. All versions (BM1, BM2, BM3, E2, E3) were compared with the English version. The BM pre-final version was produced, and pre-tested in 8 participants. Proportion Agreement, Weighted Kappa, Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient, and verbatim responses were used. The English and the BM versions showed excellent equivalence (weighted Kappa and Spearman Rank Coefficients, ranged from 0.72 to 1.00, and Proportion Agreement values ranged from 75.0% to 100%). In conclusion, the BM version of the AMS was successfully translated and adapted. |
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| spelling | upm-436822016-08-08T07:09:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43682/ Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay Hui, Meng Tan Wah, Yun Low Seng, Fah Tong Haniff, Jamaiyah Appannah, Geeta Lee, Verna K. M. Ee, Ming Khoo Chirk, Jenn Ng Chee, Christopher Kong Ho The Aging Male Symptoms Scale (AMS) measures health-related quality of life in aging men. The objective of this paper is to describe the translation and validation of the AMS into Bahasa Melayu (BM). The original English version of the AMS was translated into BM by 2 translators to produce BM1 and BM2, and subsequently harmonized to produce BM3. Two other independent translators, blinded to the English version, back-translated BM3 to yield E2 and E3. All versions (BM1, BM2, BM3, E2, E3) were compared with the English version. The BM pre-final version was produced, and pre-tested in 8 participants. Proportion Agreement, Weighted Kappa, Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient, and verbatim responses were used. The English and the BM versions showed excellent equivalence (weighted Kappa and Spearman Rank Coefficients, ranged from 0.72 to 1.00, and Proportion Agreement values ranged from 75.0% to 100%). In conclusion, the BM version of the AMS was successfully translated and adapted. Malaysian Public Health Physicians' Association 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43682/1/Aging%20male%20symptoms%20scale%20%28AMS%29%20for%20health-related%20quality%20of%20life%20in%20aging%20men%20translation%20and%20adaptation%20in%20Malay.pdf Hui, Meng Tan and Wah, Yun Low and Seng, Fah Tong and Haniff, Jamaiyah and Appannah, Geeta and Lee, Verna K. M. and Ee, Ming Khoo and Chirk, Jenn Ng and Chee, Christopher Kong Ho (2015) Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay. Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine, 15 (2). pp. 17-23. ISSN 1675-0306 |
| spellingShingle | Hui, Meng Tan Wah, Yun Low Seng, Fah Tong Haniff, Jamaiyah Appannah, Geeta Lee, Verna K. M. Ee, Ming Khoo Chirk, Jenn Ng Chee, Christopher Kong Ho Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title | Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title_full | Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title_fullStr | Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title_short | Aging male symptoms scale (AMS) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in Malay |
| title_sort | aging male symptoms scale (ams) for health-related quality of life in aging men: translation and adaptation in malay |
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