The effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on increasing marital adjustment domains in patients with vaginismus

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) on increasing marital adjustment domains in patients with vaginismus. The available population included married women in the range of 20 to 35 with vaginismus referring to Farhangian and Vali-e-Asr therapeutic centers in Shar-e-Ray. Thirty women were selected and randomly assigned to control and experi-mental groups. The research design was of pretest-posttest with control group. The Marital Adjustment scale (MAS) was administered to both groups. The experi-mental group was trained using CBT through twelve one-hour weekly sessions. The Results showed that Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) was significantly effective (p