Does the female sexual distress scale-revised cover the feelings of women with HSDD?

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2810-2815

  Derogatis, Leonard ^a   Pyke, Robert ^b   Mccormack, Julie ^c   Hunter, Adria ^c   Harding, Gale ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c UNITED BIOSOURCE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Female sexual distress Scale Revised; Female sexual dysfunction; Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; Low sexual desire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONTENT VALIDITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVISED FEMALE SEXUAL DISTRESS SCALE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 80053565980     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02385.x     Document Type: Article

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