Supplemental Digital Content 3: Languages/translations of MENQOL used in the studies
Language used for MENQOL
Number of articles a
Validation of foreign language cite previous
translation
used back translation
Validated in study
unspecified
Arabic Bengali Chinese
English & French Canadian English & Hindi
English & Yoruba French, Italian, German Greek
Japanese Kannada Korean Malay
mixed Asian languages c Persian
Portuguese Russian Spanish Thai Turkish
5 1 15
3 1 1 1 2 4 1 12
2 1 18
3 2 11
5 9
1 - 3 - - 1 1 - - - 2 1 - 4 - - 7 3 7
2 + 1 b 1 2 - 1 - - 2 - 1 1 1 - 4 - - 2 + 1 d
- -
- - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - - 2 - - - - 1
1 - 9 3 - - - - 4 - 8 - 1 8 3 2 1 2 1
Total 97 30 19 5 43
a does not includes articles where MENQOL is completed by women in a country with a language other than English and it is not stated
in the article that a foreign language is used.
b verified by bilingual person
c Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese
d used bilingual interviewers
Articles where MENQOL is completed by women in a country with a language other than English but the use of a foreign language is not mention in the article include the following possible countries and languages:
Possible language used for
MENQOL a Country Number of articles
Hebrew/Arabic Ukrainian French/Dutch Italian
Israel Ukraine Belgium Italy
1 1 1 4
Persian Urdu Portuguese
Hindi/Urdu/Kannada/other Dutch
Chinese Malay
Mixed Asian languages
Iran Pakistan Brazil India Netherlands China Malaysia
Hong Kong, Thailand,
Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia
3 1 3 4 2 2 1 1
Total 24
a Use of a foreign language is not validated for any of these articles
The authors acknowledge the assistance in translation from Dr. Mei Chi and Lei Lin (Chinese)
Christine Kim (Korean) Jeannine Flores (Spanish) Doug Lier (Portuguese)
Dr. Maria Usanova (Ukrainian, Russian) Dr. Jana Maresova (Czech)
Dr. Farshad Sepandj (Persian)