Development and Validation of the Polish Version of the Female Sexual Function Index in the Polish Population of Females

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 386-395

  Nowosielski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Wróbel, Beata ^c   Sioma Markowska, Urszula ^d   Poreba, Ryszard ^a,d  

^a Specialistic Teaching Hospital   (Poland)

^b Mining Hospital in Sosnowiec   (Poland)

^c Center for Sexual Medicine   (Poland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Development; Female Sexual Function Index; Polish version; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLAND; POLISH VERSION OF THE FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84873055332     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12012     Document Type: Article

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