All available evidence points
towards a high methodological quality of the AMS scale to measure and
to compare health-related quality of life of aging males over time and
before/after treatment.
It suggests a high reliability
and good validity
as far as the process of construct validation could be pressed ahead yet
[ 16 ].
We are waiting for more data and experience from the practice.
Correlation
with other scales
AMS as outcome measure
[16]. Daig I, Heinemann LAJ, Kim S, Leungwattanakij S, Badia X, Myon
E, Moore C, Saad F, Potthoff P, Do Minh T. The Aging Males' Symptoms
(AMS) scale: Review of its methodological characteristics. Health and
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