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Article: Sexual functioning of women with HIV: a comparison with non-HIV women.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
- Author:
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ABSTRACT: This study compared the sexual functioning of 43 HIV positive (HIV+) women and 73 non-HIV women using a slightly adapted version of the Sexual Functioning Questionnaire for Women (SFQ)(Syrjala et al., 2000). HIV+ women had statistically significantly lower scores than non-HIV women on the subscales assessing sexual interest, sexual activity, sexual satisfaction, orgasm, sexual relationships, sexual problems, and also on the combined measure of overall SFQ, but not on the masturbation subscale. Although the HIV+ group was somewhat older, less well-educated, and more likely to have ever been married than the non-HIV group, the two groups were sufficiently diverse ...