The Cervantes scale is a self-completed questionnaire designed to measure HRQoL in peri- and post-menopausal women. The original questionnaire consisting of 31 items was reduced to a 16-item short-form version (Cervantes-SF) preserving the original structure with four first-order dimensions and three second-order dimensions.

The psychometric attributes of the conceptual and measurement model and the reliability and validity of the 16-item Cervantes questionnaire (Cervantes-SF) when presented in its definite form had not been studied yet.

In this study, the Cervantes-SF has shown good psychometric properties for measuring HRQoL in peri- and post-menopausal women who regularly attended gynaecology clinics in Spain. The 16-item version has shown to keep all the original properties of the extended version, and it is proving to be more feasible in a clinical setting.