Editorial: Sexual fonction in middle-aged Latin American women as determined by the Female Sexual Function Index: Improving global acceptance of the use of validated measures of sexual fonction

Menopause

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1089-1091

  Kingsberg, Sheryl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LATIN AMERICAN MEDICINE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALIDATION STUDY; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 73249122631     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181b8b54a     Document Type: Editorial

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