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Large-Scale Survey Reveals Low Sexual Desire Most Common Distressing Female Sexual Problem, Affecting Up to One in 10 Women
Date:10/31/2008

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PRESIDE Results

In the PRESIDE survey, 44.2 percent of women reported experiencing any sexual problem. Low desire was most common, reported in 38.7 percent of all respondents; low arousal (26.1%) and orgasm difficulty (20.5%) were less frequent. Of all the women surveyed, 22.8 percent said they had sexually-related personal distress.

One in eight women (12%) said they had either low desire, low arousal or orgasm difficulty plus personal distress, meaning that, for example, the sexual issue caused the woman to feel frustrated, stressed, angry, embarrassed or unhappy. Low desire was the most common distressing sexual problem, affecting 10 percent of respondents, followed by arousal plus distress (5.4%) and orgasm difficulty plus distress (4.7%). Younger women (ages 18-44; 10.8%) and middle-aged women (45-64; 14.8%) were more likely to suffer a distressing sexual problem than older women (65+; 8.9%). In addition, these women tended to have poor self-assessed health and a low level of education as well as other health issues such as depression, anxiety, thyroid conditions and urinary incontinence.

About PRESIDE

PRESIDE is a cross-sectional, population-based, nationally-representative survey of 31,581 adult women in the United States.

As female sexual dysfunction is characterized by sexual problems associated with personal distress, two validated instruments were used. The Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ-14), a 14-item validated tool, was used to capture a respondent's self-evaluation of current sexual behaviors and problems using a five-point scale. The Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS), a 12-item validated tool, measures a woman's distress about her sex life, assesses guilt, frustration, stress, worry, anger, embarrassment and unhappiness during the past 30 days.

Funding for PRESIDE was provided by Boehringer Ingelheim.

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