title: Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Women and Men: A Consensus Statement from the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The incidence and prevalence of various sexual dysfunctions in women and men are important to understand to designate priorities for epidemiologic and clinical research.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This manuscript was designed to conduct a review of the literature to determine the incidence and prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women and men.
  
  
  METHODS
  Members of Committee 1 of the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (2015) searched and reviewed epidemiologic literature on the incidence and prevalence of sexual dysfunctions. Key older studies and most studies published after 2009 were included in the text of this article.
  
  
  METHODS
  The outcome measures were the reports in the various studies of the incidence and prevalence of sexual dysfunction among women and men.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There are more studies on incidence and prevalence for men than for women and many more studies on prevalence than incidence for women and men. The data indicate that the most frequent sexual dysfunctions for women are desire and arousal dysfunctions. In addition, there is a large proportion of women who experience multiple sexual dysfunctions. For men, premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction are the most common sexual dysfunctions, with less comorbidity across sexual dysfunctions for men compared with women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These data need to be treated with caution, because there is a high level of variability across studies caused by methodologic differences in the instruments used to assess presence of sexual dysfunction, ages of samples, nature of samples, methodology used to gather the data, and cultural differences. Future research needs to use well-validated tools to gather data and ensure that the data collection strategy is clearly described.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: Marita.McCabe@acu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Marita P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: McCabe
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ira D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Sharlip
authors.affiliation: Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: RCSI Medical University, Adilya, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Elham
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Atalla
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balon
authors.affiliation: SODc Medicina della Sessualità e Andrologia, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandra D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Laumann
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Sun Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Segraves
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007989:Libido; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D061686:Premature Ejaculation / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: Female Sexual Dysfunction; Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction; Male Sexual Dysfunction