Self Assessment Questionnaires
Often questionnaires are used by doctors to assist with the diagnosis and management of testosterone deficiency in women. They cover areas of sexuality, depression and quality of life indexes. There are many other similar investigative questionnaires used by health professionals, but these are some of the better assessment and management tools frequently employed when examining sexual and psychological parameters.
Most are subject to copyright laws and therefore are not reproduced in full or are provided without assessment scales, however their sources are fully referenced.
- Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): The FSFI questionnaire and scoring Appendix is available in full from this site.
- Brief Index of Sexual Functioning for Women (BISF-W), see appendix of: Taylor JF, Rosen RC, Leiblum SR. Self-report assessment for female sexual function: psychometric evaluation of the Brief Index of Sexual Functioning for Women. Arch Sex Behav. 1994;23:627-643.
- Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ), see appendix of: Clayton AH, MxGarvey EL, Clavet GJ. The Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFG): development, reliability, and validity. Psychopharmacol Bull. 1997;33:731-745.
- Derogatis Interview for Sexual Functioning (DIFS / DIFS-SR)
- Golumbok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS)
- McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire (MFSQ)
- Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory (SIDI-F)
- Brief HSDD Screener, see appendix of: Leiblum S, Symonds T, Moore J, et al. A methodology study to develop and validate a screener for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in postmenopausal women. J Sex Med. 2006;3:455-464.
- Sexual Quality of Life - Female (SQOL-F), see appendix of: Symonds T, Boolell M, Quirk F. Development of a questionnaire on sexual quality of life in women. J Sex Marital Ther. 2005;31:385-397.
- Sexual Satisfaction and Distress Scale (SSS-W), see appendix of: Meston C, Trapnell P. Development and validation of a five-factor sexual satisfaction and distress scale for women: the Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women (SSS-W). J Sex Med. 2005;2:66-81.
An excellent website for examining female sexual disfunction is that of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas www.femalesexualdysfunctiononline.org. It is a well designed, detailed, well referenced and accurate site that provides comprehensive information for physicians and patients and examines many aspects of the above referenced questionnaires.