Developing and validating a Taiwan version of the female sexual function index for pregnant women

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1609-1616

  Chang, Shiow Ru ^a   Chang, Ting Chen ^a   Chen, Kuang Ho ^b   Lin, Ho Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Chung Tai University of Medicine and Technology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; FSFI; Pregnancy; Scale development; Sexual activity; Sexual function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUBRICATION; MCNEMAR TEST; ORGASM; PAIN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; TAIWAN; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 66749090299     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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