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Twenty items were retained based on cognitive debriefs, and subscales were defined as pill satisfaction, injection satisfaction, pill bother, and injection bother, with two items each measuring preference for the pill or the injection. Although the resulting subscales showed adequate internal consistency, the Cronbach's alpha value for injection bother was smaller than the preferred 0.70, though still substantial enough to imply a related set of items. All subscales, except for injection satisfaction, were able to distinguish among known groups in a predictable direction. The two PSQ versions functioned similarly for most items. However, for the five items that asked about agreement with statements that referred to the weekly pill (Version A) or the 6-month injection BIBF1120 (Version B) being check details more convenient, preferable, tolerable, or likely to continue (items 14a�C 14e), the Version B responses more heavily favored the injection than the Version A responses (although both versions showed preference for the injection). Perhaps this could be because patients become confused with having to balance the direction of the response categories (��strongly agree�� to ��strongly disagree��) with the direction of the item stem (e.g., ��the weekly pill is more convenient than the 6-month injection�� vs ��the 6-month injection is more convenient than the weekly pill��). In addition, differences in response frequencies and item means were found for multiple PSQ items on language. Because great care was taken in adapting the questionnaire into multiple languages using the Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation recommendations [32] followed by cognitive debriefs in the respective countries, the differences observed between countries are unlikely to be caused by wording bias. We speculate that the observed differences between countries may be explained by small sample sizes (n Megestrol Acetate be a reasonable measure for accurately assessing if patients would prefer a once every 6-months injection or a weekly pill. The PSQ measures concepts that seem to be relevant and important to patients with postmenopausal bone loss needing treatment. Furthermore, it is a simple approach for evaluating which treatment mode patients prefer, and some of the reasons why they prefer it (greater satisfaction, less bother). The PSQ is currently being used in an ongoing open-label clinical trial comparing patient adherence, preference, and satisfaction with a once every 6-month subcutaneous injection of denosumab versus weekly oral alendronate.