Make sense of your menopause symptoms

In simple terms, the MenoScale Calculator is an online questionnaire consisting of 20 questions around your menopause symptoms. For each symptom, you will rate how much it impacts your life: (0=not at all, 1=a little, 3=quite a bit and 5=extremely). This provides a total score out of 100. A higher score means a greater “burden” of symptoms, suggesting your symptoms are having a greater impact on your life. Along with your score, you'll receive a summary of the most impactful symptoms and information on how your score compares to others like you. 

Other menopause symptom scoring questionnaires have been used in the past by academics and clinicians. The MenoScale improves upon these pre-existing scoring tools in a number of ways, to deliver a unique offering:

• Symptoms we assess are informed by how common they are, using data from our study of over 70,000 women.

• Language used to ask about symptoms is modern and accessible
  

• We assess impact on quality of life in a succinct and user-friendly format.

• The MenoScale will be available online and is open access, allowing women to assess themselves.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it. Having a score allows you to:

1. Understand what you are experiencing: Identify your symptoms and how they impact you.

2. Discuss your symptoms with data: Have meaningful, data-backed conversations about your symptoms and learn how to take charge of your experience. 

3. Track your score over time: After making diet and lifestyle changes, use the calculator again and track your score. Learn what works for your body.

Use your score to take charge of your menopause. The MenoScale calculator is open access and free to use by anyone experiencing menopausal symptoms, whether you are taking HRT or not. Tracking your MenoScale score can help you understand how any intervention - whether that’s diet, medication, or any lifestyle changes - impacts your menopause symptoms. The MenoScale score can be used to share with others, in order to compare experiences. It also allows you to make data-backed decisions about what lifestyle changes work for you. Our research shows associations between better diet and fewer menopause symptoms. Repeat your calculation after making changes, to track your score over time and see what’s working.

The MenoScale calculator is a result of our research: the largest ever menopause study into the link between diet and menopause. This study pioneered our first version of the MenoScale, called the ‘Menopause Symptom Tracker Score’, used to collect data from over 70,000 women. With key insights from this research, we created a new and improved version, called the MenoScale calculator, which can be used by women, clinicians, and researchers to drive forward the boundaries of what we know about menopause.

We will use the answers you provide to calculate your MenoScale score and to provide you with a summary of the most impactful symptoms and information on how your score compares to others like you. 

Our legal basis for this is your consent. By using the MenoScale calculator, you consent to us using your information for this purpose. We do not share that information with any third party other than the service providers we use to store it.

With your consent (which is optional), we will use your data for commercial and non-commercial research purposes. For example, we may publish research into menopause that uses this information. We may also use it to improve our products and services. You may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting dpo@joinzoe.com. An even quicker way to do this is to request that we delete your personal data by going here.
We will not keep your information longer than the purposes for which we collected it. If you give your consent for research purposes, because our research is intended to be long-term, we are currently unable to set a particular time limit on it. But we will keep it under regular review and ensure that your information is kept no longer than necessary.

Further information about your rights in relation to your data and how to contact us are set out in our Privacy Policy.