Developing a schema therapy package for women with vaginismus and comparing its effectiveness with common schema therapy on sexual schemas, sexual equality, marital adjustment, sexual self-esteem and fear of intimacy in women with vaginismus disorder

The main purpose of this study is to develop a special schema therapy package for women with vaginismus and compare its effectiveness with conventional schema therapy methods on sexual schemas, sexual self-expression, marital adjustment, sexual self-esteem and fear of intimacy in women with vaginismus.

This research is a three-group quasi-experimental method with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with a control group.

The statistical population of all women with vaginismus disorder referring to counseling centers and psychological services in Karaj in the winter of 1400 will be between the ages of 18 to 42 years, from which 45 will be purposefully selected. After the purposeful selection of the sample members, the randomly selected individuals will be divided into three groups of 15 people (in quasi-experimental research, at least 15 people are recommended for each group). Subjects will be divided into two experimental groups and one control group after sampling.

Inclusion conditions: Informed consent for treatment, being in the age group of 18 to 42 years according to the vaginismus diagnosis questionnaire, non-inclusion conditions: Having other sexual dysfunction.

The first experimental group was the Special schema therapy Common schema therapy group، the second experimental group was the Special schema therapy Common schema therapy group and The third control group.

sexual schemas, sexual equality, marital adjustment, sexual self-esteem and fear of intimacy

45 women with vaginismus from the community of women with vaginismus Women Clinic of Payambaran Hospital in a targeted manner based on sample adequacy ( in experimental and quasi-experimental research recommend at least 15 to 20 people for each group ) Will be selected. The assignment of both experimental groups, including the special schema therapy group and the conventional schema therapy group and the control group, will be randomly drawn by lot. In this way, each sample person is given a special code and then the codes are poured into a bag or container and mixed. It then pulls out the codes one by one, writes down their number, and so on until the groups are completed. Then, for random and unpredictable allocation of 15 people in the first, second and third groups for two experimental groups and one control group, coin toss will be used.

This study will be a three-way blind. In this study, the three sample groups, the therapists, and the evaluation group, who analyze the data obtained, will be kept blind. In this study, the facilitator, participants, treatment executives, and the assessment team will not have any prior physical knowledge, contact, telephone, or online contact with each other. In this study, the three sample groups will be kept blind to each other and to the treatment. Also, the executors of the treatments and the information evaluation team will be outside the treatment plan team.

Part of the data, such as information about the main outcome, can be shared.

Access to the data will start 4 months after the results are published and in 1401

Anyone interested in psychological studies in the field of vaginismus and its effects can benefit from the information published in this study. Researchers and students with studies related to the present study, if they need more information about the research process and more information about the results can be informed through the email address and phone number of the responsible author.

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