Five simple and quick questions may help determine if a woman has low sexual desire, or hypoactive sexual desire disorder, says a study released this month in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The study enrolled 263 women at 27 centers throughout the U.S. who took the decreased sexual desire screening test and their answers were reviewed with a clinician who was not an expert in female sexual desire. Separately and while being unaware of the non-expert clinician's opinion, an expert in female sexual dysfunction conducted a standard diagnostic interview with the study participant.

The results found that the decreased sexual desire screening tool and standard diagnostic interview were in agreement in 85.2 percent of the cases.

"This simple screening tool can be a great first line test to see if a women has low sexual desire," said Irwin Goldstein, M.D., co-author of the study and director of Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, California…