Table 3.

The four factors extracted by the confirmatory factor analysis with varimax rotation

Items	Factor loadings
	1 Vasomotor	2 Psychosocial	3 Physical	4 Sexual
Vasomotor subscale	Factor 1
(1) Hot flashes	0.56
(2) Night sweats	0.74
(3) Sweating	0.68
Psychosocial subscale		Factor 2
(4) Being dissatisfies with my personal life		0.65
(5) Feeling anxious or nervous		0.80
(6) Experience poor memory		0.31
(7) Accomplishing less than I used to		0.54
(8) Feeling depressed, down or blue		0.72
(9) Being impatient with other people		0.66
(10) Feelings of wanting to be alone		0.59
Physical subscale			Factor 3
(11) Flatulence (wind) or gas pains			0.46
(12) Aching in muscles and joints			0.50
(13) Feeling tired or worn out			0.55
(14) Difficulty sleeping			0.41
(15) Aches in back of neck or head			0.55
(16) Decrease in physical strength			0.59
(17) Decrease in stamina			0.61
(18) Feeling a lack of energy			0.53
(19) Drying skin			0.42
(20) Weight gain			0.34
(21) Increased facial hair			0.20
(22) Changes skin			0.46
(23) Feeling bloated			0.47
(24) Low backache			0.54
(25) Frequent urination			0.58
(26) Involuntary urination when laughing or coughing			0.33
Sexual subscale				Factor 4
(27) Change in your sexual desire				0.88
(28) Vaginal dryness during intercourse				0.78
(29) Avoiding intimacy				0.85
Initial Eigenvalues	6.17	2.41	1.89	1.81
Rotation sum of squares	4.12	3.69	2.43	2.06
Percentage of variance explained	14.19%	12.71%	8.36%	7.09%

Extraction method: Principal Component Analysis

Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization