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Daniela Jara1, Andrea Fuenzalida, Rodrigo Figueroa
1Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Background:
Although several tools have been designed to assess quality of life (QoL) among middle-aged women their capacity to specifically assess sexual dysfunction (SD) remains uncertain. Moreover, if SD impairs QoL within this population, then sexual assessment becomes a key issue.
Objectives:
To evaluate the accuracy of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) in diagnosing SD among climacteric women.
Methods:
In this cross-sectional study 370 women aged 40-59 years filled out the MRS and the Female Sexual Functioning Index (FSFI) simultaneously. SD among surveyed women was defined as those obtaining a total FSFI score of
Results:
Mean age of surveyed women was 49.3+/-5.8 years. A 56.5% of them were married, 44.3% were postmenopausal, 66.8% were sexually active and 57% had SD (FSFI total score
Conclusions:
The MRS was moderately accurate for diagnosing SD among climacteric women. More research is warranted in this regard.
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