Authors
Rosemary Basson, Jennifer Berman, Arthur Burnett, Leonard Derogatis, David Ferguson, Jean Fourcroy, Irwin Goldstein, Alessandra Graziottin, Julia Heiman, Ellen Laan, Sandra Leiblum, Harin Padma-Nathan, Raymond Rosen, Kathleen Segraves, R Taylor Segraves, Ridwan Shabsigh, Marcalee Sipski, Gorm Wagner, Beverly Whipple
Publication date
2000/3
Source
The Journal of urology
Volume
163
Issue
3
Pages
888-893
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Description
Purpose
Female sexual dysfunction is highly prevalent but not well defined or understood. We evaluated and revised existing definitions and classifications of female sexual dysfunction.
Materials and Methods
An interdisciplinary consensus conference panel consisting of 19 experts in female sexual dysfunction selected from 5 countries was convened by the Sexual Function Health Council of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease. A modified Delphi method was used to develop consensus definitions and classifications, and build on the existing framework of the International Classification of Diseases-10 and DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, which were limited to consideration of psychiatric disorders.
Results
Classifications were expanded to include psychogenic and organic causes of desire, arousal, orgasm and sexual pain disorders. An …
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