Erisvan Vieira da Silva, Guilherme Tavares de Arruda, Eduarda Brollo Berni, Amanda Dos Santos Candido, Hedioneia Maria Foletto Pivetta, Melissa Medeiros Braz
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Abstract
Background: There is a need for a more comprehensive tool for assessing male sexual function that is inclusive of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations.
Aim: Culturally adapt the Brazilian version of the Brief male Sexual Function Inventory (BSFI) and evaluate its measurement properties in adult men.
Methods: We conducted an online survey with 727 Brazilian men over 18 years of age (31.73 ± 10.88 years). According to COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN), we translated and evaluated the content validity, structural validity, internal consistency, construct validity, test-retest reliability, measurement error, and minimum and maximum effects of the BSFI.
Outcomes: The final Brazilian version of the BSFI consisted of 10 items and was found to be relevant, comprehensive, and comprehensible.
Results: Although it showed good content validity and reliability, the BSFI showed inadequate structural validity and insufficient internal consistency for at least one factor.
Clinical implications: The Brazilian version of the BSFI can be used in adult males in community samples, pending evaluation in clinical samples.
Strengths and limitations: The sampling bias associated with online recruitment may have excluded individuals without access to the Internet, thereby compromising the representativeness of the sample. This may limit generalizability. However, COSMIN guidelines were followed to ensure methodological rigor. The BSFI adaptation provides a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for assessing male sexual function, but has limitations in structural validity and internal consistency.
Conclusion: The Brazilian version of the BSFI showed sufficient validity (content validity and hypothesis testing for construct validity) in adult men and sufficient test-retest reliability.
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Sexual Medicine is an official publication of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, and serves the field as the peer-reviewed, open access journal for rapid dissemination of multidisciplinary clinical and basic research in all areas of global sexual medicine, and particularly acts as a venue for topics of regional or sub-specialty interest. The journal is focused on issues in clinical medicine and epidemiology but also publishes basic science papers with particular relevance to specific populations. Sexual Medicine offers clinicians and researchers a rapid route to publication and the opportunity to publish in a broadly distributed and highly visible global forum. The journal publishes high quality articles from all over the world and actively seeks submissions from countries with expanding sexual medicine communities. Sexual Medicine relies on the same expert panel of editors and reviewers as The Journal of Sexual Medicine and Sexual Medicine Reviews.
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