The effectiveness of emotional schema therapy in reducing the symptoms of vaginismus and increasing sexual satisfaction in Housewives

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of emotional schema therapy on reducing the symptoms of vaginismus and sexual satisfaction.

The current research is semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design. In this research, the studied population includes all women who refer to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of Aria Mashhad Hospital. 30 people who were diagnosed with vaginism disorder by the attending physician were selected by available sampling method and were randomly divided into two groups of 15 people, test and control. The research tool is Raisi's vaginismus disorder questionnaire (2014) and the marital satisfaction scale of Hudson and Harrison (1981).

The findings of the research for the main hypothesis of the research showed that emotional schema therapy is effective in reducing vaginismus disorder and increasing sexual satisfaction in housewifes, and also in the first hypothesis of the research, the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy interventions in reducing the symptoms of vaginismus was effective and the evaluation of two groups Control and testing showed that emotional schema therapy is effective in reducing the symptoms of vaginismus disorder in the experimental group. In the second hypothesis, it is reported that emotional schema therapy can lead to an increase in sexual satisfaction in housewifes, the use of emotional schema therapy in the two control and experimental groups shows a significant difference.

It is concluded that emotional schema therapy can be effective in reducing vaginismus symptoms and increasing women's sexual satisfaction.