Developing a clinical guideline for treatment of sex addiction and comparing its efficacy in individuals with and without a history of stimulant use.

Comparison of the effectiveness of the clinical guideline for the treatment of sexual addiction disorder in individuals with and without a history of stimulant use.

A clinical trial with a control group, with factorial groups, one-way blind, randomized. A random number table was used for randomization.

This research will be conducted in Isfahan. Among the people who received a diagnosis of sexual addiction disorder based on a clinical interview and a hyper sexual behavior inventoy (HBI), 60 people were selected and placed in intervention and comparison groups. Then developed clinical guideline is implemented. After the performance, the subjects will be evaluated again with HBI and the results will be analyzed using the analysis of variance test with repeated data. In order to blind the study, after compiling the guideline, we use a placebo for the comparison groups. For this purpose, a similar intervention will be designed and presented for these groups.

Inclusion criteria include receiving a diagnosis of sexual addiction disorder and stimulant use disorder, and exclusion criteria include mental retardation, psychotic symptoms, bipolar disorder, acute suicidal ideation, opioid use, drug use, and any organic disorders such as a history of head trauma. Along with anesthesia, seizures, brain tumors, etc., which have led to cognitive and psychological disorders.

Therapeutic guideline is administered for intervention groups and not for comparison groups. Subjects are randomly divided into intervention and comparison groups based on a table of random numbers. After the implementation of the guide, its effectiveness is compared in the two intervention groups and based on this, research hypotheses are confirmed or rejected.

Hyper sexual behaviors, Sexually addictive behaviors

People who enter the study are assigned to different groups based on the method of Balance Block Randomization. Mr. Arash Javaheri, a PhD student in addiction studies with a master's degree in clinical psychology, is in charge of randomization. When Mr. Javaheri evaluates the inclusion and exclusion criteria and obtaining informed consent, the people go to the receptionist of the medical center, who has a randomization table. The names of these people are recorded in the randomization table, respectively. A card is then given to the person with the randomization table code and the person's name written on the card. Subjects are required to carry this code with them whenever they refer for intervention or follow-up, and this is the basis for recording information in subsequent visits. The randomization method is simple and individual randomization unit. Using Excel software, the design consultant epidemiologist designed and plotted a balanced four-block table for study.

In order to blind the study, after compiling the guide, we use a placebo for the comparison group, for this purpose, a similar intervention will be designed and presented for this group.