Sexual activity

As assessed by WHODAS 2.0, sexual activity includes hugging, kissing, fondling, other intimate or sexual acts, and sexual intercourse (1). Sexual functioning: How the body reacts in different stages of the sexual response cycle, which includes excitement, plateau, orgasmic, and resolution phases. This also includes sexual desire, erection, orgasm and ejaculation (2). Sexual satisfaction: an effective response arising from one’s subjective evaluation of the positive and negative dimensions associated with one’s sexual relationship (2).

Source: (1) Measuring Health and Disability: Manual for WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) / edited by TB Üstün, N Kostanjsek, S Chatterji, J Rehm.
(2) Herrera-Escobar JP, Osman SY, Das S, Toppo A, Orlas CP, Castillo-Angeles M, Rosario A, Janjua MB, Arain MA, Reidy E, Jarman MP, Nehra D, Price MA, Bulger EM, Haider AH; National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) Investigators Group. Long-term patient-reported outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures after injury: the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) scoping review. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 May 1;90(5):891-900.