Psychological Evaluation and Measurement of Dyspareunia

Female Sexual Pain Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-26

  Pukall, Caroline F ^a   Meana, Marta ^b   Sutton, Katherine S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI II) and Beck Anxiety Inventory; Dyspareunic pain measured in terms of intensity and qualitative description; Identifying factors mediating pain essential to diagnostic assessment and treatment interventions; McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire (MPQ); Pain interference and comorbid problems; Pain mediators; Pressure pain measurement; Relationship adjustment; Self administered measures of pain, sexual function, and psychological and relationship adjustment; Sexual function questionnaires shedding light on comorbid sexual dysfunctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049150103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308136.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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