Design and validity of a questionnaire to assess sexuality in pregnant women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A review of validated methods for assessing female sexual dysfunction and a review of male and female sexual dysfunction did not refer to any specific questionnaire for evaluating sexuality during pregnancy. A study was performed at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University, Brazil to design and validate a pregnancy sexuality questionnaire, the Pregnancy Sexual Response Inventory (PSRI).

Methods

Women with a singleton pregnancy between 10 and 35 weeks of gestation were randomly recruited. There were five phases in the development of the PSRI: (1) item selection; (2) item development; (3) determination of internal consistency, reliability and convergence; (4) content validity; and (5) determination of inter-inte

SUBMITTER: Rudge CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2724386 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature