IRCT2016031027004N1 IRCT 2016-11-29 Payame Noor University The therapeutic and educational package for sexual disorders of women The impact of Cognitive Behavioral Sex Therapy for Vaginismus (CBST-V) on decreasing anxiety and increasing sexual function 2016-10-22 anticipated 30 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/22250 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment. N/A Vaginismus. Intervention 1: Intervention group: This therapeutic package has been made based on the cultural-related features and the differences which exist among Iranian women as compared with Western women. Its underlying principles were taken from the instructions of Ter Kuile et al. (2007), Their study was done on patients with vaginismus. Therefore, additional cases was necessary that were reviewed and approved by a number of psychologists and gynecologists. This training designed for twelve weeks, a one-hour session in each week. A summary of the Cognitive Behavioral Sex Therapy for Vaginismus package was as follows: 1)Becoming familiar with the female sexual disorders and cognitive-behavioral therapy, 2) Defining normal sexual orientation and physiological responses and describing male and female’s sexual cycles, 3)Muscle relaxation training, 4)Effective communication training, 5)Problem solving, self-confidence reinforcement and anger management skills training, 6) Cognitive restructuring in relation to sexual-mental disorders, 8) Improving sexual techniques and skills (sensory focus 1), 9) Improving sexual techniques and skills (sensory focus 2), 10,11,12) Regular desensitization for sexual penetration. Each of the main topics of this educational package was instructed in one or two sessions and in all sessions some assignment were given to participants. This educational package is not only usable for women with vaginismus and other sexual problems, but also its instructions can be used for all women who want to improve their sexual functioning, even if they do not have any sexual problems. Intervention 2: For the control group, no intervention was done. In case of proving the hypotheses, this treatment will be taught the control group for free.