The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Quality of Sexual Experience Scale

[...]the QSE, Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction and HADS were administered to couples with vaginismus before and after one comprehensive session of sexual counseling. Cinsel deneyim, cinsel sağlık, diyabetes mellitus, geçerlilik, güvenilirlik, kalite, vajinismus INTRODUCTION Sexuality is one of the most important aspects of health and quality of life, and is vital to the overall well-being of women.1 Female sexual dysfunction correspond to various biological, physical, psychological, and interpersonal etiologies.2'3 It is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, as clinicians are frequently limited by a poor understanding of its multifactorial nature.3 Female sexual dysfunction may actually be a symptom or side effect, rather than a primary pathology.4 Female sexual dysfunction represents a more complicated issue; therefore a comprehensive approach addressing both the physiological and psychological factors is required to address women's sexual difficulties.1 The screening and diagnosis of female sexual dysfunction can be made in the office setting using questionnaires, although most of the selfreport or interview questionnaires are primarily used in the research settings.3,5 Among those, the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) is distinguished than others with scrutinizing sexual function in six separate dimensions (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain).6 Women are supposed to assess their sexual functioning over the previous four weeks. [...]the assessment of sexual life over a period of time may restrict the understanding of how the quality of an individual's sexual experience that can be affected by relational, interpersonal, situational, mood, hormonal and habitual factors.7 Taking an event-level approach became particularly important in the context of findings from event-level prospective studies, which have indicated that sexual experiences vary within-person and across events with the same partner, and are shaped by situational, relational, and interpersonal factors.8-10 The Quality of Sexual Experience Scale (QSES) is a promising scale that was constructed to measure sexual quality on an event-specific basis.7 QSES measures the quality of each sexual event and can be used regardless of the age, gender, sexual orientation, and relationship status of the individual and across sexual activity types.7 The scale is increasingly used in sexual researches that focus on event-specific perceptions of sexuality.8,11 In thi