Overarching acceptability and usefulness
Patients widely reported that completing the SexFS Brief was
“comfortable” and “straightforward”. Representative quotations are
shown in Table 2. Rare reports of discomfort with the PRO tool were
reported, but generally with the accompanying acknowledgement that the
questions were still important.
Multiple patients, particularly in the age 20-24 age group, expressed a
desire to have the SexFS Brief used in clinical settings, with one
stating, “These are really important questions to be asked and to give
real answers…I think that if this tool could be applied, could be
really cool” (Female, age 24) (Table 2). Only one participant noted
that she would prefer in-person conversations over the use of the SexFS
Brief. Others expressed that the SexFS Brief would be useful in filling
a needed gap in care; for example, a different participant stated,
“They were all questions that I wish someone would’ve asked me”
(Female, age 22). Some participants, across both age groups, stated that
completing the SexFS Brief helped them to think of questions they should
be asking their physician about, but hadn’t previously thought to ask;
for example, one stated that it “made [him] curious if any erectile
dysfunction was a result of the treatment [he] had” (Male, age 24).