Mal-PCOSQ
The original PCOS health related quality of life questionnaire is in English language, published by Cronin L et al. in 1998 in the U.S.A. which includes 26 items in 5 domains and it takes 10-15 minutes to complete.[6] The domains are divided into emotions (8 items), body hair (5 items), weight (5 items), infertility (4 items), and menstrual problems (4 items); Each question is associated with a 7-point scale in which 7 represents optimal function and 1 represents the poorest function. Analysis from this study[6, 9] found that this PCOSQ is easy to understand and use. It is recommended that investigators weigh the items equally and present the results as the mean score per item for each of the domains.[6, 9] (Appendix S2)