NCT01704443

Integrated Mindfulness for Provoked Vestibulodynia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to test the efficacy of a 4-session intervention (Group psychoeducational treatment) using a randomized study design. Participants will be randomized in to 'immediate treatment' or 'waitlist control'. Women in the wait-list condition will receive the 4-session IMPROVED treatment, just as women randomized to the experimental group, after the end of their wait-list period.

Conditions

• Provoked Vestibulodynia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group Psychoeducational Treatment	The Group Psychoeducational Treatment consists of treatment in small group format (8-9 women). Each session will be 2.25 hours in duration and there will be four, bi-weekly sessions over the course of 2 months. Session content includes education about chronic pain, PVD, stress and sexual response, mindfulness practices, and cognitive techniques to notice thought patterns that contribute to increased pain. Participants in the Waitlist Control Condition will receive this treatment at the end of the waitlist period (approximately 8 weeks)
OTHER	Waitlist control	No treatment will be provided during the 8 week Waitlist control period

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2012-10-11
• Last updated: 2017-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada