ISSN: 2161-0932
						Carmen Gonzalez Tejero
	
					    												
Spain						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Female Sexual Function in Castilla Y Leon (Spain): Normal Ranges 						
Author(s): Fatima Castroviejo Royo, Consuelo Conde Redondo, Luis Antonio Rodriguez Toves, Carlos Marina Garcia-Tunon, Carmen Gonzalez Tejero and Jose Maria Martinez-Sagarra Oceja
Fatima Castroviejo Royo, Consuelo Conde Redondo, Luis Antonio Rodriguez Toves, Carlos Marina Garcia-Tunon, Carmen Gonzalez Tejero and Jose Maria Martinez-Sagarra Oceja
             
						
												
				 We hypothesized that the application of Rosen’s Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI©) in a Spanish population differs from the results published in the United States population.
Material and methods: We conducted an observational epidemiological study of female sexual function in the population of Castilla y Leon (Spanish region) involving 4500 women and we determined their “normality” in order to achieve nine diagnostic cut-off points for female sexual dysfunction for our community overall and by decade of age.
Results: We developed a new, general specific cut-off point to diagnose sexual dysfunction in our female population, FSFI© ≤ 21.7; bearing in mind that female sexual dysfunction is age-dependant, we obtained new cut-off points for the diagnosis of female sexual dysfunction by decade of age... View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2161-0932.1000240