BACKGROUND Sexuality is a complex phenomenon that is being influenced by psychological as well as physiological factors. Its dysfunction includes desire, arousal, orgasmic and sex pain disorders. The present study aimed to assess the incidence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and related risk factors in a cohort of Ghanaian women. METHOD The Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS) wa...

Dyspareunia has long been considered to be psychogenic. Opposite, it has solid biological bases, that need to be addressed in a more integrated and patient-centered perspective. The new International Classification on Female Sexual Disorders allocates the etiologic subtypes of “Organic, Psychogenic, Mixed, Unknown” in the group of Sexual Pain Disorders, that includes Vaginismus, Dyspareunia and...

OBJECTIVE To assess long-term quality of life and sexual satisfaction outcomes of women treated for vaginal agenesis. DESIGN An audit project using questionnaires to assess quality of life (World Health Organization Quality of Life Bref [WHOQoL-Bref]) and sexual satisfaction (Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction [GRISS]). SETTING Gynecology Department of Royal Children's Hospital....

Dilator stretching is often a frequent part of treatment for multiple disorders involving the pelvic floor muscles and it unknown what time duration dilator use until patient goals are achieved. This paper looks at studies vaginal dilators with diagnoses vaginismus, dyspareunia, pain to begin answer question. It was determined recommendations given UIHC physical therapy patients these change in...

OBJECTIVE Sexual problems are widely encountered in community. While studies clinically performed concerning sexual problems in Turkey exist, there are no field studies related to sexual problems witnessed in both men and women. In this study, sexual problems in married population and the level of their sexual knowledge have been tried to be investigated. METHOD The cosmos of the study consis...

Much of the literature focuses on the pathology that falls to the far right of the Watkins (1997) differentiation-dissociation continuum, such as Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder NOS. Adding a "far left" to this continuum, as well as a construct of what the "far left" looks like, makes apparent the value of healthy adaptive differentiation for those individuals that fall...