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The sexual quality of life questionnaire for patients with coronary heart disease (male version and female version), the Generalized Anxiety Scale (GAD-7) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) were used for measurement. LPA was used to identify latent classes of sexual quality of life, and then ROC analysis was used to determine the optimal cut-off point, and its validity was verified by anxiety and depression levels.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>LPA results show, the sexual quality of life for both male and female patients was classified into three latent classes, demonstrating high classification accuracy (Entropy &amp;gt; 0.96). ROC analysis determined that the optimal cut-off point for the female version of the questionnaire was 58 (sensitivity 96.8%, specificity 96.6%, AUC = 0.997), and that for the male version was 68 (sensitivity 98.5%, specificity 99.0%, AUC = 0.999). The cut-off point validation results showed that the patients in the low sexual quality of life group had significantly higher scores in sexual physiology, sexual psychology, sexual cognition dimensions, as well as anxiety and depression levels than those in the high sexual quality of life group, and male patients had a higher risk of anxiety and depression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The SQoL-CHD questionnaire cut-off points demonstrate strong psychometric properties and are effective for identifying CHD patients at risk of low sexual quality of life and higher levels of anxiety and depression symptoms, supporting their use in targeted clinical screening and intervention.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2026.1855052","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,29]],"date-time":"2026-05-29T04:56:40Z","timestamp":1780030600000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Preliminary identification of psychometric cut-off points for the SQoL-CHD: a cross-sectional study based on LPA and ROC analyses in a Chinese clinical sample"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Weihong","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University","place":["Xinxiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fengpei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University","place":["Xinxiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yachai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiovascular Ward, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University","place":["Xinxiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruijuan","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oncology Ward, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University","place":["Xinxiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","unstructured":"Cardiovascular Diseases"},{"key":"B2","volume-title":"Investigation and countermeasures of sexual quality of life after PCI","author":"Wu","year":"2019"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"i662","DOI":"10.1093\/ecco-jcc\/jjae190.0413","article-title":"P0239 sexual quality of life and patient-healthcare communication in inflammatory bowel disease: a comprehensive single-center analysis","volume":"19","author":"Saidani","year":"2025","journal-title":"J Crohns Colitis"},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1007\/s00520-022-07459-8","article-title":"Sexual quality of life following a cancer diagnosis: a qualitative study","volume":"31","author":"Haber","year":"2023","journal-title":"Support Care Cancer"},{"key":"B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"340","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.c810","article-title":"Sex, health, and years of sexually active life gained due to good health: evidence from two US population based cross sectional surveys of ageing","volume":"3","author":"Lindau","year":"2010","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"B6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1642","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsxm.2016.08.011","article-title":"Sexual satisfaction and the importance of sexual health to quality of life throughout the life course of US adults","volume":"13","author":"Flynn","year":"2016","journal-title":"J Sex Med"},{"key":"B7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.20471\/acc.2018.57.01.18","article-title":"Sexual activity in patients with cardiac diseases","volume":"57","author":"Mornar","year":"2018","journal-title":"ACC."},{"key":"B8","unstructured":"Jelavic\n              MM\n            \n          \n          Sexual activity in patients with cardiovascular disease - 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