Effectiveness of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy on Sexual Function and Emotional Expression in Women with Multiple Sclerosis

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of to investigate the effect of Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on emotional expression and sexual function in women with multiple sclerosis. The present study was semi-experimental research with a pretest-posttest design with the control group. Out of women with MS who referred to Kermanshah comprehensive clinic in 2017, 28 were selected through targeted sampling and interviewed and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control groups. The King and Emmons Expression Expression Questionnaire (1990) and the sexual function of women in Rosen & et al (2000) were used for pre-test and post-test for data collection. short-term dynamic psychotherapy for the experimental group was grouped twice a week in 20 sessions of 60 minutes. To analyze the data, multivariate covariance test was used by SPSS software version 23. The results of the analysis on the pre-test and post-test scores showed that there is a significant difference between the two groups of the test and control groups in the sexual function variables (P <0.05) and emotional expression (P<0.01). In other words, interventional therapy increases the mean scores of emotional expression and sexual function of the experimental group in the post-test phase. Based on the findings of this study, it is suggested that using counseling centers, health clinics ,and MS associations throughout the country to increase the emotional expression and sexual function of women with multiple sclerosis using short-term dynamic psychotherapy techniques.