ORIGINAL RESEARCH-WOMEN's SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS: The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI‐F): Item Response Analyses of Data from Women Diagnosed with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

The SIDI‐F is a brief, clinician‐administered rating scale designed to assess severity of HSDD symptoms in women. IRT analyses show that majority of the items of the SIDI‐F function well in discriminating individual differences in HSDD severity. A revised 13‐item version of the SIDI‐F is currently undergoing further validation. Sills T, Wunderlich G, Pyke R, Segraves RT, Leiblum S, Clayton A, Cotton D, and Evans K. The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI‐F): item response analyses of data from women diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. J Sex Med 2005;2:801-818.