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Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion
The cultural compatibility of sexually related instruments is problematic because the contexts from which the concepts and meanings were extracted may be significantly different from related contexts in a different society. This paper describes the instruments that have been used to assess sexual be...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139245\ |
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author | Ghorashi, Zohreh Merghati-Khoei, Effat Yousefy, Alireza |
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description | The cultural compatibility of sexually related instruments is problematic because the contexts from which the concepts and meanings were extracted may be significantly different from related contexts in a different society. This paper describes the instruments that have been used to assess sexual behaviors, primarily in Western contexts. Then, based on the instruments’ working definition of ‘sexual behavior’ and their theoretical frameworks, we will (1) discuss the applicability or cultural compatibility of existing instruments targeting women's sexual behaviors within an Iranian context, and (2) suggest criteria for sexually related tools applicable in Iranian settings. Iranian women's sexual scripts may compromise the existing instruments’ compatibility. Suggested criteria are as follows: understanding, language of sexuality, ethics and morality. Therefore, developing a culturally comprehensive measure that can adequately examine Iranian women's sexual behaviors is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-41651032014-09-23 Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion Ghorashi, Zohreh Merghati-Khoei, Effat Yousefy, Alireza J Educ Health Promot Review Article The cultural compatibility of sexually related instruments is problematic because the contexts from which the concepts and meanings were extracted may be significantly different from related contexts in a different society. This paper describes the instruments that have been used to assess sexual behaviors, primarily in Western contexts. Then, based on the instruments’ working definition of ‘sexual behavior’ and their theoretical frameworks, we will (1) discuss the applicability or cultural compatibility of existing instruments targeting women's sexual behaviors within an Iranian context, and (2) suggest criteria for sexually related tools applicable in Iranian settings. Iranian women's sexual scripts may compromise the existing instruments’ compatibility. Suggested criteria are as follows: understanding, language of sexuality, ethics and morality. Therefore, developing a culturally comprehensive measure that can adequately examine Iranian women's sexual behaviors is needed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4165103/ /pubmed/25250346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139245\ Text en Copyright: © 2014 Ghorashi Z. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Ghorashi, Zohreh Merghati-Khoei, Effat Yousefy, Alireza Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title | Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title_full | Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title_fullStr | Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title_short | Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion |
title_sort | measuring iranian women's sexual behaviors: expert opinion |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139245\ |
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