Monocentric pilot interventional study. The aim of the study is to assess clitoral doppler ultrasonographic parameters in a population of sexually healthy volunteer women in order to obtain reference values. Psychobiological correlates of female sexual function will also be studied through hormonal testing and psychological evaluation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Doppler Ultrasound assessment of clitoral hemodynamics will be performed in all subjects. Transvaginal and transrectal ultrasound will be performed in subjects giving their consent to these procedures.
Ambulatori di Medicina della Sessualità e Andrologia
Florence, Italy
Clitoral artery peak systolic velocity and acceleration
This will not be evaluated in different time frames but evaluated in order to assess reference values in sexually healthy women and compared with subjects with sexual dysfunction.
Time frame: baseline
Female sexual function assessed through the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI)
Time frame: baseline
General psychopathology assessed through the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ)
See above
Time frame: baseline
Body image is investigated through the Body Uneasiness Test (BUT)
Time frame: baseline
Measurement of the thickness of the urethrovaginal space
Time frame: baseline
Measurement of the thickness of the endometrial lining
Time frame: baseline
Hormonal parameters (17β-estradiol, total testosterone, LH, FSH, TSH, PRL, delta-4-androstenedione, DHEAS, 17-Hydroxyprogesterone, SHBG)
Time frame: baseline
Metabolic parameters (total cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, glycemia, insulin, glycated hemoglobin)
Time frame: baseline
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