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Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
About: Female Sexual Arousal Disorder is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 22538 citations.
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TL;DR: The results support the reliability and psychometric (as well as clinical) validity of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) in the assessment of key dimensions of female sexual function in clinical and nonclinical samples and suggest important gender differences in the patterning of femaleSexual function in comparison with similar questionnaire studies in males.
Abstract: This article presents the development of a brief, self-report measure of female sexual function. Initial face validity testing of questionnaire items, identified by an expert panel, was followed by a study aimed at further refining the questionnaire. It was administered to 131 normal controls and 128 age-matched subjects with female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) at five research centers. Based on clinical interpretations of a principal components analysis, a 6- domain structure was identified, which included desire, subjective arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain. Overall test-retest reliability coefficients were high for each of the individual domains (r=0.79 to 0.86) and a high degree of internal consistency was observed (Cronbachs alpha values of 0.82 and higher) Good construct validity was demonstrated by highly significant mean difference scores between the FSAD and control groups for each of the domains (p<0.001). Additionally, divergent validity with a scale of marital satisfactio...
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TL;DR: A report on clinical findings about human sexual response patterns and orgasmic expression was published in this article, which showed that human sexual responses are correlated with the number of orgasms and sexual arousal.
Abstract: A report on clinical findings about human sexual response patterns and orgasmic expression.
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TL;DR: Cross-validate the Female Sexual Function Index in several samples of women with mixed sexual dysfunctions and develop diagnostic cut-off scores for potential classification of women's sexual dysfunction and discuss the results in terms of potential strengths and weaknesses of the FSFI.
Abstract: The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) is a brief, multidimensional scale for assessing sexual function in women. The scale has received initial psychometric evaluation, including studies of reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity (Meston, 2003; Rosen et al., 2000). The present study was designed to cross-validate the FSFI in several samples of women with mixed sexual dysfunctions (N = 568) and to develop diagnostic cut-off scores for potential classification of women's sexual dysfunction. Some of these samples were drawn from our previous validation studies (N = 414), and some were added for purposes of the present study (N = 154). The combined data set consisted of multiple samples of women with sexual dysfunction diagnoses (N = 307), including female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD), hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), female sexual orgasm disorder (FSOD), dyspareunia/vaginismus (pain), and multiple sexual dysfunctions, in addition to a large sample of nondysfunctional controls...
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TL;DR: Use of the new female sexual dysfunction diagnostic and classification system based on physiological as well as psychological pathophysiologies, and a personal distress criterion for most diagnostic categories are recommended.
1,244 citations
TL;DR: The prevalence of distressing sexual problems peaked in middle-aged women and was considerably lower than the prevalence of sexual problems, which underlines the importance of assessing the popularity of sexually related personal distress in accurately estimating the prevalenceof sexual problems that may require clinical intervention.
1,190 citations