Re: Prevalence and risk factors for low sexual function in women: a study of 1,009 women in an outpatient clinic of a university hospital in Istanbul-a response.

摘要

We would like to state our views and explanations regarding the objections raised in a recently published letter to the editor by Verit and Verit critiquing our earlier published work [1,2].The author suggested that the study would be improved if the women were grouped into their pre/postmenopausal status or natural/surgical menopause, duration of marriage, the duration of menopause, taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and the severity of depression. In the study, the variables with statistically significant differences were included in the model for logistic regression analyses. The variables mentioned by the author did not show a significant difference, or had very low number of cases for the further analyses. Although we did the analyses to compare the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) scores in those women, we did not include them in the article. But now, we are pleased to find opportunity to share the results below.