title: Reliability and validity of the Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F), a scale designed to measure severity of female hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
abstract: The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F) is a 13-item scale developed as a clinician-administered assessment tool to quantify the severity of symptoms in women diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). The present investigation assessed the reliability and validity of the SIDI-F as a measure of HSDD severity. Results show that the SIDI-F exhibits excellent internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha of 0.9. The validity of the SIDI-F as a measure of HSDD severity was confirmed by a number of observations. Women with a clinical diagnosis (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000]) of HSDD had significantly lower SIDI-F scores than women not meeting diagnostic criteria for any subtype of female sexual dysfunction and women diagnosed with female orgasmic disorder. There was a high correlation between scores on the SIDI-F and scores on the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI; Rosen et al., 2000) and an interactive voice response version of the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ; Clayton, McGarvey, & Clavet, 1997; Clayton, McGarvey, Clavet, & Piazza, 1997), two validated measures that assess general female sexual dysfunction. In contrast, there was a poor correlation between SIDI-F scores and scores on a slightly modified Marital Adjustment Scale (Locke, Wallace, 1959; MAS), an assessment of general (nonsexual) relationship satisfaction. Taken together, the results of the present investigation indicate that the SIDI-F is a reliable and valid measure of HSDD severity, independent of relationship issues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virgina Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA. ahc8v@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Anita H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Clayton
authors.forename: R Taylor
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Segraves
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leiblum
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Basson
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pyke
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cotton
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lewis-D'Agostino
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Terrence L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Sills
authors.forename: Glen R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Wunderlich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires