NCT02613546

THE INFLUENCE OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION FEMALE: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centro de Atenção ao Assoalho Pélvico · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research is a randomized clinical trial aims to evaluate the influence of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) on quality of life and sexual function of patients with sexual dysfunction. The notion of sexual health for the World Health Organization exceeds the concept of sickness absence, having a subjective well-being of significance in the spheres of self-concept, self-image, interpersonal relationships and sense of self worth. Furthermore, sexual satisfaction and relationship quality of life is also evidenced in many studies. CBT is a brief and focal psychotherapy with proven efficacy in several mental disorders, improving health and quality of life of the treated populations. However, they did not find clinical trials that showed the effectiveness of CBT in Sexual Dysfunctions. This study aims to then fill this gap by evaluating the relationship from the use of techniques of CBT.

Conditions

• Sexual Dysfunctions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)	The study group will undergo 10 sessions of guidelines and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) about an hour long, once a week. Of these: 1. evaluation session; 2. sessions of psychoeducation about the CBT model 5 sessions of cognitive restructuring 2 sessions of preventing relapse
BEHAVIORAL	Control therapy	The control group will be subjected to 10 weekly sessions (1 time per week) approximately one hour guidelines.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-10
• Primary completion: 2026-08-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2015-11-24
• Last updated: 2023-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil