Development of a Screening Tool for Assessing Sexual Difficulties Among Patients with Parkinson's Disease: The PD-SDS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) exhibit various sexual difficulties (SDs) that may be due to motor and/or nonmotor symptoms or the use of antiparkinsonian medication. SDs are often underreported by PwPD and underexplored by physicians.

Objective

This study aimed to explore the SDs experienced by PwPD and create a scale for assessing them.

Methods

A corpus of items was generated from semistructured interviews to represent the experience of PwPD as closely as possible. The number of items was reduced according to the psychometric properties, and the scale's structure was subsequently examined. The final phase consisted of measuring the scale's validity and reliability.

Results

After assessment of the original corpus of 59 items by PwPD and clini

SUBMITTER: De Groote C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11307097 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature