Are You Able to Cope up With Menopause? Check With Clinically Validated Free Online Self-Assessment Menopausal Rating Scale(MRS)

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Why Menopause Symptom Scale?

Symptom scales for aging women have clinically been used for years and the interest in measuring health-related quality of life¹Heinemann, L.A., Potthoff, P. & Schneider, H.P. International versions of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS). Health Qual Life Outcomes 1, 28 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-1-28. Menopause is a natural phenomenon that every woman goes through. It is the end of reproductive age in a woman. The female body is governed by constant hormonal changes. Estrogen, LH, FSH, and other hormones not only balance temperature, and immunity but also governs several psychological aspects such as self-confidence, and self-esteem. You can learn more about female health from our comprehensive female health premier.   There is a period of 1-4 years before the menopause called Perimenopause. During this period, the hormones change continuously. Therefore there is a change in the female pathology, which results in a change in the female psychology, and the effect of the psychopathological changes are reflected in the female physiology. These physiological changes appears as symptoms. Therefore measuring the severity of the symptoms can help us understand the amount of variation in the female reproductive hormone profile and help device treatment protocols and therapeutics to improve the quality of life of the perimenopausal or menopausal women.

About This Questionnaire Based Clinically Validated Free Online Menopause Symptom Classification Tool MRS

The MRS²Potthoff P, Heinemann LAJ, Schneider HPG, Rosemeier HP, Hauser GA: Menopause-Rating Skala (MRS): Methodische Standardisierung in der deutschen Bevölkerung. Zentralbl Gynakol 2000, 122: 280–286. was developed and validated some years ago aiming at establishing an instrument to measure quality of life that can easily be completed by women. The aims of the MRS were:

1. To enable comparisons of the symptoms of aging between groups of women under different conditions,
2. To compare severity of symptoms over time, and
3. To measure changes pre- and post-treatment

During the perimenopause, and post-menopause phase, a woman also goes through fogged brain and lack of mental clarity. There is confusion in her about everything. Her impulsivity and suppressed anger increases. This not only affect the menopausal women, but also her family. Women goes through medical intervention to minimize the symptoms, like Hormone Replacement Therapy(HRT).  However, medicines are just there to handhold you, they can not play the main role in your healing or coping. This MRS tool is your own friend. You can always measure your symptoms with this tool. Then you can follow some simple self-help instructions, provided based on your symptom severity to improve your own health and monitor regularly.

Validity and Reliability of the Tool

A follow-up investigation of a random sample of an initially representative survey of German women (aged 40-60), which dated back to early 1996, was performed in late 1997. A subsample of 306 women participated. The MRS scale, a self-administrative standardized questionnaire, was applied with additional, mainly health-related, questions. A comparison of the MRS with the Kupperman index produced a high correlation of raw scores (r = 0.91). The highest association of scores (80%) was found in the highest quartile of the MRS. Note that when MRS was developed back in 1996, Kupperman index was the first most reliable menopausal rating scale available. In various other independent studies spanned over last decade or so, have all proven high reliability of this scale. Therefore MRS is valid, reliable, and efficient self-assessment tool for menopausal women. You can easily access this tool anytime, anywhere further makes this personal clinical tool of yours as important and needed.

How to Use the Tool and Interpret the Results of MRS?

1. Answer the questionnaires based on your experience of the symptoms in last seven days.
2. Get the result as low sevirity, moderate sevirity and high sevirity.
3. For moderate and high sevirity, you are adviced to visit a Gynecologist.
4. For moderate and high sevirity, you may follow the instructuons provided with the test result to improve your health.
5. You must take this test every week, keep the screenshots of the tests, and compare your health from the past week.
6. In the event of high sevirity score persistance for more than three weeks, you must consider getting a thorough health check including your cardiovascular health check done.

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MRS Tool For Clinicians

One of the biggest challenges for the clinicians in women health is tracking the health parameters. There are several apps that assists a woman in some ways or the other to track their health parameters. Still these are just an extra burden to your patient’s phone, and an additional stress. MRS is clinically validated over one and half decades by more than 100 studies. So, when your patients use this tool, you know that they are using a standard clinical instrument, whose results will be clinically relevant. Please advice your patients to use this free tool, and track their weekly symptoms. That will give you great deal of insights about your treatment efficacy. MRS helps a Gynocologists in following way

1. Deciding on the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
2. Deciding on other supplement drugs based on symptom sevirity.
3. Tracking the overall symptomatic health of your menopausal patients.
4. Suggesting Predictive health tests, to take preventive measures.
5. Advicing Diet and other lifestyle changes to your patient.
6. To estimate Estrogen Levels, and Estrogen/Androgen Ratio.

Disclaimer

This test is provided as-is. Acculi Labs Pvt. Ltd. and Lyfas take no responsibility for the harm arising from taking the test including Hypochondriasis, mental trauma, and others. The results of this test can not be used as evidence in a court of law. No institutional actions, legal actions, and disciplinary actions can be initiated based on the results of this test. Furthermore, we take no responsibility for the validity and accuracy of the test. This is adapted from the original MRS. This is an anonymous test, and we do not capture any sensitive data of yours that reveals your identity including your name, GPS, mobile number, etc. However, we log your IP address along with the final test result(not individual answers).

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