The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F): Item response analyses of data from women diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 801-818

  Sills, Terrence ^a   Wunderlich, Glen ^b   Pyke, Robert ^c   Segraves, R Taylor ^d   Leiblum, Sandra ^e   Clayton, Anita ^f   Cotton, Dan ^c   Evans, Kenneth ^a  

^a Axon Clinical Research   (Canada)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder; Item Response; Psychological Assessment of Sexual Dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL INTEREST AND DESIRE INVENTORY;

EID: 28444491920     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2005.00146.x     Document Type: Article

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