title: The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F): item response analyses of data from women diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is the most common sexual complaint in women. Currently there are no validated instruments for specifically assessing HSDD severity, or change in HSDD severity in response to treatment, in premenopausal women. The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F) is a clinician-administered instrument that was developed to measure severity and change in response to treatment of HSDD. Seventeen items were included in a preliminary version of the SIDI-F, including 10 items related to desire, and seven items related to possible comorbid factors (e.g., other kinds of sexual dysfunction, general relationship satisfaction, mood, and fatigue).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to use the outcome of item response analyses of blinded data from two randomized, placebo-controlled trials, to assist in the revision of the scale.
  
  
  METHODS
  A nonparametric item response (IRT) model was used to assess the relation between item functioning and HSDD severity on this preliminary version of the SIDI-F.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results show that the majority of SIDI-F items demonstrated good sensitivity to differences in overall HSDD severity. That is, there was an orderly relation between differences in option selection for an item and differences in overall HSDD severity. The IRT analyses further indicated that revisions were warranted for a number of these items. Five items were not sensitive to differences in HSDD severity and were removed from the scale.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The SIDI-F is a brief, clinician-administered rating scale designed to assess severity of HSDD symptoms in women. IRT analyses show that majority of the items of the SIDI-F function well in discriminating individual differences in HSDD severity. A revised 13-item version of the SIDI-F is currently undergoing further validation.
authors.affiliation: Axon Clinical Research, Toronto, ON, Canada. t.sills@axon-cr.com
authors.forename: Terrence
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sills
authors.forename: Glen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wunderlich
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pyke
authors.forename: R Taylor
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Segraves
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leiblum
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clayton
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cotton
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012106:Research; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012984:Software; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires