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  <trial>
    <main>
      <trial_id>IRCT20241121063792N1</trial_id>
      <utrn></utrn>
      <reg_name>IRCT</reg_name>
      <date_registration>2025-03-18</date_registration>
      <primary_sponsor>Tarbiat Modares University</primary_sponsor>
      <public_title>Investigating the effect of sensate focus technique and body image counseling on the sexual function of married women of reproductive age with polycystic ovarian syndrome</public_title>
      <acronym>Pcos</acronym>
      <scientific_title>Investigating the effect of sensate focus technique and body image counseling on the sexual function of married women of reproductive age with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a Randomized Clinical Trial</scientific_title>
      <scientific_acronym></scientific_acronym>
      <date_enrolment>2025-03-21</date_enrolment>
      <type_enrolment>anticipated</type_enrolment>
      <target_size>60</target_size>
      <recruitment_status>Complete</recruitment_status>
      <url>https://irct.ir/trial/81609</url>
      <study_type>interventional</study_type>
      <study_design>Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Factorial, Purpose: Education/Guidance, Other design features: No, Randomization description: Randomization will be performed using a **block randomization** method to ensure balance between the intervention and control groups. In this study, blocks of four will be used, meaning that within each block, two participants will be assigned to the intervention group and two to the control group. All possible balanced sequences within a four-person block (IICC, ICIC, ICCI, CCII, CICI, CIIC) will be pre-generated. These sequences will then be randomly selected(Using a standard table of random numbers) and placed in sealed envelopes to maintain allocation concealment. Participants will sequentially select one of these envelopes, determining their group assignment, while group allocation will remain concealed from both researchers and participants until the end of the study.</study_design>
      <phase>N/A</phase>
      <hc_freetext>Polycystic ovary syndrome.</hc_freetext>
      <i_freetext>Intervention 1: Intervention group: The intervention group receives a face-to-face counseling session including sensory focus technique training and body image improvement in the form of face-to-face counseling along with educational slides and videos, and exercises are performed for one and two months after the counseling. Intervention 2: Control group: will not receive an intervention.</i_freetext>
      <results_actual_enrolment></results_actual_enrolment>
      <results_date_completed></results_date_completed>
      <results_url_link></results_url_link>
      <results_summary></results_summary>
      <results_date_posted></results_date_posted>
      <results_date_first_publication></results_date_first_publication>
      <results_baseline_char></results_baseline_char>
      <results_participant_flow></results_participant_flow>
      <results_adverse_events></results_adverse_events>
      <results_outcome_measures></results_outcome_measures>
      <results_url_protocol></results_url_protocol>
      <results_IPD_plan>Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available</results_IPD_plan>
      <results_IPD_description>Justification or reason for indecision in sharing IPD is There is no further information.</results_IPD_description>
    </main>
    <contacts>
      <contact>
        <type>public</type>
        <firstname>Mahla Payamaskari</firstname>
        <middlename></middlename>
        <lastname></lastname>
        <address>No. 84, Maskan St., Banafshe Alley</address>
        <city>Yazd</city>
        <country1>Iran (Islamic Republic of)</country1>
        <zip>8915784718</zip>
        <telephone>0098 35 6235152</telephone>
        <email>mahlaaskari.03@gmail.com</email>
        <affiliation>Tarbiat Modares University</affiliation>
      </contact>
      <contact>
        <type>scientific</type>
        <firstname>Mahla Payamaskari</firstname>
        <middlename></middlename>
        <lastname></lastname>
        <address>No. 84, Maskan St., Banafshe Alley</address>
        <city>Yazd</city>
        <country1>Iran (Islamic Republic of)</country1>
        <zip>8915784718</zip>
        <telephone>0098 35 6235152</telephone>
        <email>mahlaaskari.03@gmail.com</email>
        <affiliation>Tarbiat Modares University</affiliation>
      </contact>
    </contacts>
    <countries>
      <country2>Iran (Islamic Republic of)</country2>
    </countries>
    <criteria>
      <inclusion_criteria>Married women aged 18-40
Having sex in the last 8 weeks
Having no known underlying disease other than PCOS
Not having a mental illness
Being single and living with a spouse now and during the study
Literacy in reading and writing Farsi language
Being Iranian</inclusion_criteria>
      <agemin>18 years</agemin>
      <agemax>40 years</agemax>
      <gender>Female</gender>
      <exclusion_criteria>Addiction of couples to drugs and alcoholic beverages
Stressful incident in the past month
History of pelvic floor surgery
Use of medications that affect sexual performance</exclusion_criteria>
    </criteria>
    <health_condition_code>
      <hc_code>E28.2</hc_code>
    </health_condition_code>
    <health_condition_keyword>
      <hc_keyword>Polycystic ovarian syndrome</hc_keyword>
    </health_condition_keyword>
    <intervention_code>
      <i_code>Treatment - Other</i_code>
      <i_code>N/A</i_code>
    </intervention_code>
    <intervention_keyword>
      <i_keyword>Intervention group: The intervention group receives a face-to-face counseling session including sensory focus technique training and body image improvement in the form of face-to-face counseling along with educational slides and videos, and exercises are performed for one and two months after the counseling.</i_keyword>
      <i_keyword>Control group: will not receive an intervention.</i_keyword>
    </intervention_keyword>
    <primary_outcome>
      <prim_outcome>Sexual performance score. Timepoint: Before the intervention and one and two months after the intervention. Method of measurement: Sexual function index questionnaire.</prim_outcome>
      <prim_outcome>Body image. Timepoint: Before the intervention and one and two months after the intervention. Method of measurement: Body image concern questionnare.</prim_outcome>
    </primary_outcome>
    <secondary_outcome>
      <sec_outcome></sec_outcome>
    </secondary_outcome>
    <secondary_sponsor>
      <sponsor_name></sponsor_name>
    </secondary_sponsor>
    <secondary_ids>
      <secondary_id>
        <sec_id></sec_id>
        <issuing_authority></issuing_authority>
      </secondary_id>
    </secondary_ids>
    <source_support>
      <source_name>Tarbiat Modares University</source_name>
    </source_support>
    <ethics_reviews>
      <ethics_review>
        <status>Approved</status>
        <approval_date>2025-01-25</approval_date>
        <contact_name>Ethics committee of Tarbiat Modares University</contact_name>
        <contact_address>Tarbiat Modares University,  Nasser Bridge, Jalal Al Ahmad Tehran Tehran Iran (Islamic Republic of)</contact_address>
        <contact_phone></contact_phone>
        <contact_email></contact_email>
      </ethics_review>
    </ethics_reviews>
  </trial>
</trials>
