Table 1.

The characteristics of the included studies

Instrument	Country	Items	Average fill time	Population	Sample (n)
Questionnaire Measure of Sexual Interest (QMSI) [57]	Ireland	140	20 min	Women and Men	94
Sexual Desire Conflict Scale for Women (SDCSW) [18]	USA	33	Not reported	Women	54
Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2) [2]	Canada	14	Not reported	Women and Men	380
Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2) [25]	Germany	13	Not reported	Women and Men	156
Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI-2) [26]	Spain	14	Not reported	Women and Men	608
Sexual of Fantasy Questionnaire (SFQ) [62–64]	England	40	Not reported	Women and Men	90 [22–24]
Sexual of Fantasy Questionnaire (SFQ) [65, 66]	Spain	32	Not reported	Women and Men	Two samples n = 460 [25] and n = 510 [26]
Menopausal Sexual Interest Questionnaire (MSIQ) [19]	USA	10	Not reported	Women	332
The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F) [20, 21, 67, 68]	USA	13	5 min	Women	448 [31]
The Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory-Female (SIDI-F) [28]	Iran	13	15 min	Women	Three samples: n = 90 [28], n = 248 [29] and n = 428 [30] 40
Screener for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Menopausal Women (SHSDD) [22]	USA	4	Not reported	Women	959
Cues for Sexual Desire Scale CSDS [23]	USA	40	Not reported	Women	Two samples n = 874 and n = 138
Cues for Sexual Desire Scale CSDS [27]	Portugal	40	Not reported	Women	3.687
The Sexual Arousal and Desire Inventory (SADI) [69]	USA	54	Not reported	Women and Men	390
Female Sexual Desire Questionnaire (FSDQ) [24]	Australia	50	30 min	Women	741