Disclosure : This study was funded by Pfizer S.L.U. All authors had complete access to the data, participated in the analysis and/or interpretation of results, and drafted the poster. SFdC and JR are employees of Pfizer, S.L.U. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest
Objective. To explore the psychometric properties of the menopause-specific Cervantes scale in elderly post-menopausal women older than 64 years.
Methods. We analyzed a random sub-sample of women older than 64 years who were enrolled in a cross-sectional, epidemiological study including post-menopausal women attending outpatients clinics of Gynecology in Spain. Along with the self-administered 31-items Cervantes scale, the Spanish version of the SF-12v2 and socio-demographics data were also recorded. Feasibility, reliability, criterion and construct validities were explored.
Results. 312 post-menopausal women [mean (SD) age of 69.7 (4.2) years (range: 65-87) were included. Missing questionnaires was very low; 0.63%. Ceiling effect was negligible, while floor effect was observed in item #24 (51.6%) and #17 (47.1%). Cronbach’s α coefficients were above 0.7 in all cases; ranging from 0.915 (whole scale) to 0.708 (aging sub-domain). The scale correlated high and significantly with mental and physical summary components of the SF-12v2; -0.713 and -0.608, respectively (p<0.001). Vascular symptoms, sexual and partner relationship domains showed poor negative correlations with SF-12v2 (-0.09 to -0.38), while the other domains showed negative and high to moderate correlations (-0.43 to -0.71, p<0.01). The scale was able to differentiate HRQoL of subjects with different co-morbidities that were expected to be different and to discriminate between subjects with scoring in the 1st and 4th interquartil intervals of the total scale; 34.1 versus 88.8, p<0.001.
Conclusions. The Cervantes Scale showed appropriate psychometric properties of feasibility, internal consistency and validity to explore HRQL of post-menopausal elderly women older than 64 years of age.
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