Validity
Discriminant validity was assessed using known groups comparison. It is shown that Mal-PCOSQ was able to discriminate women who differed in PCOS specific symptoms hence support the validity the Mal-PCOSQ (Table 5). As hypothesized, good correlation was found between similar domains of the two instruments used ; Mal-PCOSQ and SF-36v2 (Table 6). Emotional domain on Mal-PCOSQ was well correlated with role emotion (r=0.469; p<0.001), social function (r=0.464; p<0.01), mental health (r=0.476; p<0.01) and mental component summary (r=0.545; p<0.01) of SF-36v2. These correlations were stronger than the other domains, for example physical function (r=0.252). Menstrual problems domain on Mal-PCOSQ correlated with Bodily pain domain of SF-36v2 (r=0.439; p<0.01). Infertility domain of Mal-PCOSQ correlated significantly with role emotion of SF-36v2 (r=0.423; p<0.01) that indicates infertility posed a significant impact on emotions of women with PCOS.