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Study aim:
The effect of education of sexual health promotion package on sexual dysfunction and sexual quality of life in multiple sclerosis women
Design:
This study is a randomized controlled clinical trial, and 72 women with multiple sclerosis will be randomly assigned into two intervention and control groups.
Settings and conduct:
In this study, 72 married women with multiple sclerosis who referred to Iranian MS Society after obtaining informed consent will be randomly assigned into intervention and control groups. In the intervention group, sexual health education and counseling will be provided in 6 sessions, and no education or counseling will be provided to the control group
Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria:
Inclusion criteria: Married women with multiple sclerosis, age of 18 to 50 years old; having sexual dysfunction (selecting “often” or “always” options in at least one question from the MSISQ-19)؛ having sexual activity during the last six months; EDSS <7؛ have no severe depression or severe fatigue.
Exclusion criteria: Other acute and chronic diseases; being at the stage of recurrence or disease attack and receiving other treatments for sexual dysfunction.
Intervention groups:
Multiple sclerosis women in the intervention group will receive Face-to-Face sexual health education and counseling in six sessions -90 minutes during six weeks through lecture, Question-Answer method and role-play. The sexual health promotion package was designed after several stages of quantitative and qualitative research, experts panel, and then searching in the literature.
Women in the control group will not receive any intervention by the research team during the study.
Main outcome variables:
Sexual dysfunction with Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire-19 (MSISQ-19) and sexual quality of life with sexual quality of life-female (SQOL-F) questionnaire.