Effect of Psychosexual Caring Program on Sexual Well-being of Infertile Women

Akdeniz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexuality; Infertility, Female; Nursing Caries

Treatments: Other: Psychosexual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04612959

AkdenizUniv

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aims to examine the effect of the psychosexual caring program on the sexual well-being of infertile women.

Full description

The study will be conducted with 70 infertile women. The intervention group (n = 35) will consist of infertile women who receive a psychosexual caring program, and the control group will consist of infertile women who receive standard care. Standard care includes the information given by the nurse about the treatment methods to be applied once. A total of 4 interviews will be held in the intervention group. In the first interviews, pre-test data will be taken. The psychosexual caring program will be conducted online as a group intervention. The psychosexual caring program includes interventions to promote body awareness, the meaning of sexuality, and marital relationships by gaining communication skills, sexual communication, body knowledge, information about sexual health, and its dimensions. After online interviews with groups, data will be collected for primary and secondary outcomes.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having been diagnosed with primary infertility as a result of gynecological evaluation made by experts,
• Planning an assisted reproductive treatment method for women,
• Being active in terms of sexual intercourse,
• Being able to read and write in Turkish,
• Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Having any known illness related to sexual dysfunction (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney failure and autoimmune and rheumatic diseases),
• Having a psychiatric diagnosis, •Not having computer or mobile phone and internet access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychosexual care

Experimental group

Description:

The psychosexual caring program will be conducted online psychoeducation as a group intervention. The program includes four sessions with home assignments and home readings papers.

Treatment:

Other: Psychosexual care

Standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care includes the information given by the nurse about the treatment methods to be applied once.