Female Sexual Desire

Abstract

| INTRODUCTION: Female sexual desire dysfunction is prevalent and negatively impacts sexual function and quality of life, but there are no functional scales that take into account function and dysfunction. OBJECTIVE: To construct and validate a short scale for functional evaluation of female sexual desire. METHOD: Correlation of sexual desire function results assessed by the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) and the new functional scale in an internet sample of the Brazilian female population in general through the Student's t test and the Spearman coefficient. ROC curve fostered corroborating analysis between data from the FSFI desire dysfunction domain with the new functional assessment scale. RESULTS: Half of the women in the sample had sexual dysfunction by FSFI, and one third had sexual desire dysfunction. There was a good correlation between the results of the new scale and the FSFI sexual desire domain, as well as good sensitivity and specificity of the model by the ROC curve. CONCLUSION: The new short functional rating scale for female sexual desire based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health may be a useful tool in assessing the function of female sexual desire.